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Sir William Waad, Knight, Secretary of the Privy Council, Lieutenant 
of the Tower of London, and Ambassador. 

(From his tomb in the Parish Church of Manuden in the County of 
Essex, England, as recently restored by William de Vins Wade, 
Esquire, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Great Dunmow, 
Essex.) 



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The Wade Genealogy 



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Some account of the origin of the name, and of the lost folk- 
story of the famous hero, Wada, particulars 
and pedigfrees of famous English- 
men of the name, 

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Genealogies of the families of Wade of Massachusetts and 
New Jersey, to which are added many miscellan- 
eous pedigrees, 

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A roll of honor of the Wades who went to War. 



Illustrated with portraits and coats-of-arms. 



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encouragement it was accomplished, 
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dedicates 
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Jew York, 
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Wade Genealogy. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS IN PART I. 



Preface, line 34, for Genealogical Hifiton/ read Genealogical Die- 
tionary. 



Page 13, note (d), irorhfi should be tvoi'Jcs. 



Page 12, add, Vadi Olafisuu (/. c. Wade the sou of Olaf), is mentioned 
in the account of the settlement of Iceland by the Norsemen, 
about A. D. 800. See the Landnamabok. 



Page 2t>, line 23. add, William Morris in his poem Sir Peter Harp- 
don's End (contained in The Defence of Guinevere and other 
Poems) (1858), uses a similar comparison of bravery in the lines: — 

They ought to sing of him who was as wight, 
As Launcelot or Wade, and yet avail'd 
Just nothing, but to fail and fail and fail. 



Page 30, line 31, illusion should be allusion. 



Page 31, line 17, Hovenden should i)e Hoveden (nowHowdeu). York- 
shire. 



Page 36, add, Atkinson's Historg of Cleveland, Yorkshire 1, 1(51, 
under the parish of Syche, near VVhitby, says: "Standing stones 
or monoliths remain standing in three or four localities (on the 
Ugthorpe moors); one of these is on the moor not far from 
Ugthorpe Mill, another stands a little east from Goldsborough, 
and another is somewhat to the north east of East ]}aruby. This 
last, the so-called Wade's Stone (*), is, I have no doubt at all, 
sepulchral, and from personal inspection of its site and character- 
istics, 1 feel confident examinaticm would result in the discovery 



Wade Grnkai.ogy Corrections. 2 

of one or more burials near. It is remarkable as being a mass of 
the stone termed ' crowstone ' by Professor Phillips, and 'white 
Hint' by the dalesmen, which, notwithstanding the extreme hard- 
ness of the material, is seamed and furrowed on its upper surface 
in 'a really surprising manner." (*) Atkinson adds as a note: 
" The tradition is uniform in connecting these stones with a giant 
Wade, but not in counting them his gravestones; for there are 
numerous fables, ascribing to the gigantic powers of Wade, and 
his wife and son, the erecting of such monuments, as well as the 
building of Mulgrave and Pickering castles, and the forming of 
the Eoman road. One of Wade's stones which stood near Swar- 
thouse was broken up some years ago to mend roads." 



Page 37, note (q), add, little reliance can be placed on this account 
of the origin of Lasswade. 



Page 37, add, Wach in the parish of Hovingham, Yorkshire appears as 
Wad in the Domesday Book, Wath in Habikeld Wapentake fig- 
ures as Wat, and Wath upon-Dearne in the county of York is 
called Wade, Wat, and Wate. 



Page 38, The Domesday spellings of Wade place-names are instruct- 
ive. To the courtesy of that able antiquary, Mr. William Brown, 
F. S. A., Honorary Secretary of the Yorkshire Archaeological 
Society, the compiler is indebted (with much other valuable data) 
for the following : Waddington figures in the Domesday survey 
as Widitun, Wadsley as Wadelei and Wadesleia, Wadsworth as 
Wadeswurde, Wadworth as Wadeworde, Wadewurde and Wade- 
wrde, Watlas as Wadles, Wheatley (in Doncaster Parish) as 
Watelag and Watelage and Wheatley (in Lancashire) as Watelei. 



Page 38, line 12, add, Waddow Hall (township of Waddington), York- 
shire and Wadlands (parish of Calverley), Y'orkshire. 



Page 40, line 34, add, Wad^ Merton County, North Dakota. Mail 
Mandan. 



Page 41, note after Te) should ])e note (f). 

Page 41, note (1) for Alexander L. Wade read Alexander Wade. 



Wade Genealogy Corrections. 
Page 49, line 4, for Dunken's read Dunkm's. 

Page 49. line 14, for Job read Benjamin. 

Page 54, line 6. for Major read Marshal. 

Page 54, line 13, for correspondence read correspondents. 



Page 5G, line 33. add, for abstract of his will see Nciv Em/land His- 
toric and Genealogical Reg iMer , Vol. 51. page 376. 



Page 74, line 6, for Yorke read Yorkshire and add Alured Comyn 
was confirmed as Prior of Nostel, May 13, 1534. He was the last 
Prior but one before the Dissolution of the Monasteries. See 
Dugdale's Monasticon, Vol. V, p. 91. 



Page 75, line 6, for Anna read Anne. 
Page 76, line 3, for werthy read worthy. 
Page 76, note w, for alumi read alumni. 
Page 83, line 37, for Cambridge read Oxford. 
Page 85, line 3, note (i) should be note (a). 
Page 88, line 14, for statesmen read ntatesmau. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Chapter. 

Preface. 
J. The Origin and Etymology of the Name of Wade 

AND HEREIN OF DuKE WaDA. 

2. The Antiquity of the Wade Fainiily — English 
Pedigrees and Faaious Wades. 

3. The Genealogy of Wade of Massachusetts and 
Ohio. 

4. The Genealogy of Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 

5. Various American Genealogies, including Wade 
OF Virginia. 

6. The Roll of Honor of the Wades who went to 
War. 

Index of Wades. 

Index of Names other than Wade. 

Index of Places. 



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PREFACE. 

The fact that up to the present, no one has published a connected 
account of a family, famous not only in England, but in America, 
should be a sufficient excuse, if excuse be needed, for the compilation 
of this book. 

A family which has produced Armigel Waad, Secretary of the Priv)^ 
Council to King Henry VIII. of England and one of the first English- 
men to land in America; his sou. Sir William Waad, who had so lead- 
ing a part in the colonization of Virginia, and whose activity as Lieu- 
tenant Governor of the Tower of London procured for him the epithet 
of "that villain Wade," from his prisoners. Sir Walter Raleigh and 
Cobham ; Colonel Nathaniel Wade, the ill-fated Monmouth's companion 
at Sedgmoor; Field Marshal General George Wade, Commander-in- 
Chief of the British Army in early Georgian days and builder of the 
famous Highland Roads; Colonel Nathaniel Wade, of Massachusetts, 
who held West Point the night after Arnold's treason and who was the 
friend and confidant of AVashington and Lafayette; scores of Revo- 
lutionary soldiers ; United States Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade 
and his patriot sons, Major-General James Franklin Wade and Major 
Henry P. Wade of the United States Army; Jeptha Homer Wade, 
Senior, the first President of the present Western Union Telegraph 
Company; his son, a Union officer, and his grandson to whom the 
compiler dedicates this book ; and to turn for a moment to the Old 
World, Sir Claude Martine Wade, K. C. B., the soldier who first forced 
the Khyber Pass, and Sir Thomas Francis Wade, G. C. M. G., K. C. 
B., Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of China; such 
a family may be pardoned for a family pride which, deeming insuffi- 
cient the scattered notices in biographical and genealogical works, has 
essayed to present a collected, though necessarily far from perfect. 
History of the Wade Family. 

Occupying, as the present compilation has, the labor of many 
years and requiring the expenditure of much money, it can only 
hope to serve as an index or stepping-stone for others who come 
after to use. All honor to our ancestors who preserved records, to 
Savage, whose Genealogical History of AVw England has proved of 
great value, and to those, dead and gone, who with a pardonable pride 
in the possession of an honored name, collected much of the material. 
The compiler can only say with Montaigne, " I have gathered a posie 
of other men's flowers, and nothing but the string that binds them is 
mine own. " 



Though the little Mayflower bore none of the name, as early in the 
days of settling the Massachusetts Colony as 1630, came Nathaniel, 
Nicholas, and Jonathan Wade, solid yeomen of the English county of 
Norfolk, and settled around Boston. From this stock came men who 
rushed to arms at the first call of the colonies, who mustered at Reho- 
both to fight the fierce Narragansetts, who went with Pepperell to the 
attack on Louisbourg, and whose descendants, m the times that tried 
men's soiils, responded to the first echo of the Lexington alarm — men 
who fought at Bunker Hill, at Saratoga, at Harlem and in Rhode Is- 
land, and who went with the "Father of their Country" to the wintry 
horrors of Valley Forge. The records of the Revolution have been 
carefully examined and all information obtained as to those Wades 
who took up arms for freedom. 

The compiler's especial thanks are due to very many members of the 
family for valuable information, data, copies of documents and assist- 
ance in his self-imposed task. The obligations under which he remains 
to Messrs. Ebenezer Delano Wade, Judge Decius S. Wade, Major- 
General J. F. Wade, Jeptha Homer Wade, Junior, William Wade of 
Pittsburg, Daniel Treadwell Wade, William Dwight Wade, Alexander 
L. Wade, George Washington Wade, Alfred L. Beebe, and his trans- 
atlantic correspondents, William de Vins Wade, Armigel Bleaymire 
Wade, D. T. Newton-Wade, William Cecil Wade, and Claude Fitzroy 
Wade, in this respect, are deep and very sincere. 

There exists a third class — as the old Winchester adage runs — 
to be scourged. To the many engrossed too deeply in the chase of the 
almighty dollar to reply to his circulars of enquiry, the compiler can 
only express his conviction that in future years, their negligence will 
be execrated by their descendants. 

It remains but to add that all corrections, data and particulars will 
be welcomed by the compiler with a view to later and more extended 
editions of the work. 

STUART C. WADE. 
146 West 34th Street, 

New York, March, 1900. 



The Wade Genealogy 

CHAPTER I. 

THE ORIGIN AND ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME OF WADE AND 

HEREIN OF DUKE WADA. (a) 

"Sine nomine, homo non est." Puteanus: Diatr: de Erycio. 

"To find out tlie true originall of surnames is full of difflcultie."— Camden. 

Wade, according to Lower {Pa/ronvmica Britannicd), is one of 
the names that man derives from the face of nature. Brifaine's 
Remaines (1614) speaks of it as a baptismal name in use in 
England at the Conquest (1066). It is one of the oldest English 
names, as the following folk-rhyme, (quoted by Lower), will 

show : — 

With Tho7-pe and Bour7ie; Coke, Carter, Oke, 
Combe, Bury, Dofi and Stowe and Stoke, 
With Ey and Port; Sha-iu, Worth and WADE, 
Hill, Gate, Well, Stone are many made 
Cliff, Marsh, and Mouth and Don and Sand, 
And Beck and .SV(Z with numbers stand. 

As to the derivation of the name, the same author ascribes it 
to the Anglo-Saxon ivad, as importing a meadow or a ford. The 
late Dr. E. Cobham Brewer, also, in his excellent Dictioiuvy of 
Phrase and Fable, derived the name from the Anglo-Saxon ivad, a 
ford ; wadan, to ford or go through (a meadow), but erroneously 
instances the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of June — Weyd- 
monat ; as, so called, according to Verstegan, " because the 
beasts did then zm'd in the meadow, that is to say, go and feed 
there." 

Thus, an investigator may expect to find innumerable instances 
of the surname from the earliest date when surnames came into 
general use. Lower also informs us that the surname Wade itself 

{a). The compiler acknowledges the deep debt of gratitude due to 
his friend Mr. Wm. Addison Hervey, A.M., Instructor in Germanic 
Languages and Literatures, Columbia University, New York City, 
for a considerable and valuable portion of this first chapter. To his 
painstaking effort is due the entire credit for the excerpts and transla- 
tions from the earlv Scandinavian and German literature as to the ex- 
ploits of the hero' Wade. If, as is sincerely hoped, this chapter pos- 
sesses more than a mere genealogical interest, a part of the credit be- 
longs to Mr. Hervey for his kind cohaboration with the compiler. 

(11) 



12 The Wade Genealogy. 

is also derived from a baptismal use of the name, but affords a 
grain of comfort by the statement that it is not included in the 
sixty most common surnames of the English people, a dictum also 
confirmed by the reports of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths 
and Marriages in England, and the data of the four largest 
American cities. 

Arthur, in his Etymological Diction iry of Names (1857) incor- 
rectly ascribes our surname to the Dutch as derived from zveide, 
a meadow or pasture, but the Dutch -t'eide, it seems, may have 
been itself derived from the earlier and kindred Anglo-Saxon. 
Hereon Ferguson, in his English Surnames (1858) goes more to 
the root of the matter by relating that the father of the Anglo- 
Saxon hero Weland, was called in that dialect Wada ; in Old 
Norse, Vadi, and in Old High German Wado. The philologist 
Grimm identifies Wada with the Danish hero Wate, in Gudnin. 
In an old Anglo-Saxon poem, called the Widsith, (Scop, Glecmans 
or Traveler s Tale, for the terms are identical), we are told that 
Wada ruled over the Helsings, a Scandanavian tribe which left a 
trace of its occupancy in the place-name, Helsingfors {b). Grimm 
goes further and derives Wada's name from his having waded, 
like a second Christopher, with his son on his shoulder, over 
the nine-ell-deep Groenasund (c), between Seeland, Falster and 
Moen. 

Chaucer, the father of English poesy, mentions this famous 
Saxon hero, perhaps real — perhaps mythical — in his classic Canter- 
bury Tales. He says : 

" And eke thise olde widewes (God it wote) 
They connen so mocli craft on Wades bote {d) 
So mochel broken harm whan that hem lest 
That with hem shuld I never live in rest." 

(Lines 9297-9300.) 

{b). Helsiiigaland was probably the Finnish peninsular on the Gulf 
of Bothnia. There is now a town'named Helsingfors on the southern 
extremity of that peninsular, situated on the Gulf of Finland. Also a 
district in eastern part of Sweden, (just across the Gulf of Bothnia), 
called Helsingland. 

(c). Groenasund is the modern Gron Sound, between the Danish 
island of Zealand, Falster and Moen. — (W. E. H.) 

(d). Professor W. W. Skeat, the eminent Chaucerian scholar, in his 
Works of Chaucer (London, 1S94) Vol. v. pp. 356-7, and his notes to 
the Canterbury Tales (line 1424 of The Marchantes Tale), after men- 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 13 

{//) tioning various allusions to Wade, (all of which appear in this chap- 
ter) continues : ' 'After all, most light is given us by the following sentence 
in Vigfusson and Powell: C[orpus] P\oeticii7ii\ B\o7-cale\ I. p. 168: 
— 'that the king; [Nidad's;] daughter [Bodwildjhad a son byWeyland, 
the famous Wade (the memory of whose magic boat Wingelock lin- 
gered in Northern England till the Reformation), we know from 
Wilkin a Saga. 

•'I entirely differ with AI. Michel's extraordinary conclusion about the 
boat — "Nous avons quelques raisons de croire que ce bateau n'etoit 
pas d'une course aussi rapide: en effet dans I'Edda il est dit qu' Odin 
avint un valet et une servante nommt-s Ganglat et GangUet, mots 
qu'on dit signifier marcliant lenfoiicnt.'" 

Of course Ganglate and Ganglaet (as they should be written) mean 
' slow-goer, ' but this has nothing to do with Guitige/ot, which is mere- 
ly a French spelling of some such form as Wingelok. It is obvious 
that the sole use of a magic boat is to transport its possessor from 
place to place in a few minutes like the magic wings of Wade's own 
father. This is all we need to know, to see the point of the allusion. 
Old widows, says Chaucer in effect, know too much of the craft of 
Wade's boat; they can fly from place to place in a minute, and, if 
charged with any misdemeanor, will swear they were a mile away 
from the place at the time alleged. Mr. Pickwick, on the other hand, 
being only a man, failed to set up an alibi, and suffered accordingly. " 

Professor Skeat's opinion of Michel's suggestion is certainly 
correct, as there could be no such connection between the Icelandic 
and French words. Fr. Gti- regularly corresponds to Eng. W. as 
for example in the equivalent of the proper name William. His 
explanation of the allusion in Chaucer's line is ingenious and 
perhaps correct, if we assume that the tradition of the boat became 
confounded with that of the magic wings or, properly, "feather-gar- 
ment. " When Wieland put this on he had somewhat the appearance 
of a bird, although the King was still able to recognize him, perhaps by 
his voice, for he spoke as a human being. Wieland's boat had no 
particularly magic qualities, nor did it afford especially rapid trans- 
portation. It took Wieland eighteen days to float from the mouth of 
the River Weser to the domain of King Nidung in Jutland (see post 
Vilkina Saga, ch. 20). Men fishing near the coast dragged the enorm- 
ous trunk ashore in their nets. They marvelled at its appearance, be- 
cause it was so cleverly hewn and thought that something good must 
be hidden therein. 'Thej' sent to the King, asking him to come and 
see this tree. When the King came and saw the trunk, he command- 
ed them to examine what might be in it. Then they began cutting 
into the trunk ; but when Wieland found what they were doing, he 
called to them and told them to stop and said that a man was inside. 
And when they heard the voice, they thought that the Evil One him- 
self must be in the trunk ; and they were terrified and ran away in 
this direction and that, and told the King they thought the Evil One 
was in the trunk. Meanwhile Wieland opened the trunk, came out 
and went before the King and said: 'Sir, I am a human being and 
not a spectre; and diligently do I pray that you will give me protec- 
tion for my person and my belongings; then I will go with you and 
serve you' " (ch. 21). 

It is to be noted that Skeat errs in speaking of Wade as 
Wieland's son. He bases his statement on the note of Vigfusson 
and Powell which he quotes without going to the Vilkina Saga 
for verification. That the editors of the Corpus should have made 
this slip is a matter of some surprise, for the Vilkina Saga says plainly 



14 The Wade Genealogy. 

And again the same poet in The Booke of Trnilus and Cresseide, 
refers to this hero as popular and well known in the following 
words : 

"He songe, she plaide, he told a tale of Wade." (e.) 

(Book III, line 615.) 
As to the origin and significance of the word or name of Wade, 
the earliest occurrence of the name of Wade in literature is in 
Widsi/h, or The Travelers Song, line 22, where Wada is men- 
tioned as ruler of the Hehings. The date of Widsdh is probably 
as early as A. D. 433-440, and the poem is quite certainly con- 
tinental. Of the Helsings we have no information, except that 
Adam of Bremen (who wrote about A. D., 1080,) mentions Hel- 
siiigaland as " civitas maxima Scritofinnorum.'' In the Lay of 
Wieland (Elder Edda), the father of Wieland, Egil, and Slagfid, is 
a Finnish king, whose name is not mentioned. In the Wilkma 
Saga the father of Wieland (Volund) and Egil, is Wade (Vadi). 
In the Anglo-Saxon poem, The Latnetit of Deor, (belonging to 
the seventh or eighth century), the story of Wieland (Weland), as 
told in the Vilkina Saga, is referred to so circumstantially as to 
show that the poet knew it well. 

The story of Wieland's having been carried across the Groena- 

{(/) that the son of Wieland and Bodwild was Wzt/ig. The four genera- 
tions are Wilkinus, Wade, Wieland, Wittig. Is it possible that Wade 
became confounded with his father Wilkinus, whose boat was boarded 
by the mermaid with wliom lie had lain while ashore just before he set 
sail from the Baltic coast in Russia ? (cf. post, transl. from Vilk. Saga, 
eh. 18). The mermaid climbed over the stern, seized the rudder and 
held it so tightly that the ship came to a standstill. She did not leave 
the ship until Wilkinus told her to come to him in his domain, where 
he promised to receive her well, and take good care other. Six months 
later she made her appearance at his dwelling saying that she was 
about to bear a child by him, and he received her according to his 
promise. May there not be an allusion to the cunning of widows and a 
comparison with the mere-woman who brought Wade's father to terms 
by heroic measures ? 

Skeat says further (note to line 1425 broken harm): Taken all 

together, lines 1424-6 simply imply that 'old widows are so full of 
tricks for deceiving me, and can inflict at pleasure such small but con- 
stant annoyances, that I &c. (He explains broken harm as meaning 
"fragmentary, i. e. petty annoyances," "small worries.") 

{e). " In this," says a critic, " there seems to be some obscene allu- 
sion to what anatomists have termed fossa tiavien/arts, (as to which 
see Dunglison' s Medical Dictionary ■^. 6Sg), though what immediate 
connection there could be with the mythical Wade, now escapes us. " 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 15 

sund on his father's shoulders, was probably a part of the Anglo- 
Saxon tale, as well as his exploit in the wonderful boat which he 
made from the trunk of a tree. The wonderful exploit of Wade 
in carr}dng his son across the Groenasund, where it was nine ells 
deep, might easily bring about the transfer of the boat episode 
to him. 

The Anglo-Saxon words which have a similarity to the proper 
name of Wada or Wade are : 

(i.) zvadcifi, to go, stride, etc.; specifically, to go through water, to 
wade. With this verb belongs the noun, 
ivad, a ford ; this word occurs also as ivo'd. 
(2.) ivlecI, clothing, garment, etc.; the modern English iveeds. 

The resemblance between the name and the verb Tvadan seems 
to offer a very plausible derivation. Grimm evidently believes it 
the correct one, for he says he was probably so called because he 
waded through the Groenasund with his son, Wieland. It is more 
likely, that this exploit was attached to Wade through a popular 
etymology of his name, which had, in fact, nothing to do with the 
verb ivadan (to wade), but was derived from Wuo/an (Wodan). It 
is probably true, however, that this name ultimately goes back to 
the same root as wadan, in its earlier meaning, /o go; hence, 
Wuotan : — source of movement or energy. As noted later in the 
remarks on Wate in Gtidnm, there is a little doubt that Wada is 
the successor of the god Wuotan, for he is everywhere endowed 
with superhuman characteristics, and his function in the heroic 
sagas corresponds very closely to that of Wuotan in the earlier 
legends of the gods. If this be conceded, it is easy to connect 
the Anglo-Saxon name for the Milky Way — Waetlingastret — with 
the popular belief that Wodan's " wild army " or " wild hunt " 
passed over the sky by this route. It is to be noted further that 
in the district to which the Giulnin belonged the name for the 
Milky Way is Vrojieldenstraet (Frau Hilde's Way); and the leader 
of Hilde's army for the recovery of Gudrun and the punishment 
of her abductors was Wate. 

The Anglo-Saxon verb ivadan has nothing to do with the word 
weyd (monat), as the month of June was called. Wtyd is con- 
nected with wcedati, to roam about, to hunt, etc., and wad, a hunt. 



1 6 The Wade Genealogy. 

English has lost this word, bat it is the German iveiden, to feed, 
pasture, uliimatelv to go seeking food, whence the idea of hunting, 
which is preserved in the noun Waidmami (hunter), but not in the 
verb. It may be connected with the Latin ve-nan, to hunt. 
WL7/c7fi, on the other hand, is the German zva/en, to wade, which 
is ultimately connected with the Latin va-dere, to go, this being, 
as noted above, the earlier meaning, now lost, of the Germanic 

word. 

As to the origin of the family-name. Wade, nothing of any sig- 
nificance can be said. Speculation in this direction is futile. 
While all indications point to an early Germanic origin, there is 
always present the possibility of its having come from Romance 
sources, so far as the etymology is concerned. The Italian bor- 
rowed the word as guado, and it might have come back into 
English as a surname. The very early record of JVcrda in Anglo- 
Saxon sources seems, however, to make this unlikely. 

The most natural way to account for the surname would be to 
connect it with the place of residence, i. e. , it was given to a 
family living near a wad, oxford. The English did not keep " of 
the " between the Christian and the family name. While the Dutch 
name, e.g., remained Van-der-voort, the Englishman called himself 
plain Ford. 

It will be appropriate here to notice the mention of Wade in the 
Vilkina Saga, an abstract of the parts relating to Wade being as 
follows : — Chapter i8, " Of King Vilkinus, how he got the giant 
Wade with a mermaid. . . . Vilkinus, King of Vilkinaland, was 
a mighty and warlike hero. It happened once that he was crossing 
the Baltic Sea with an army ; and when he was about to sail for 
home and was lying off the Russian coast, it chanced one day that 
the King went ashore and into a wood alone, none of his people 
beine: with him : and here in the wood he saw a woman who was 
very beautiful and seemed to him most pleasing to look upon. 
She delighted the King forthwith and he went up to her ; this 
woman, however, was none other than what is called a mermaid, a 
creature that in the sea is shapen like a monster, but on land has 
the appearance of a woman. King Vilkinus put his arms about her 
neck, kissed her, drew her to him and lay with her. And when 
his people, who should have been following him, missed him, 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 



17 



they went about the wood seeking him ; and soon afterward the 
King came again to his people and his ships. 

"And as soon as a favorable wind rose they sailed away; and 
when they were far out at sea a woman climbed over the stern of 
the King"s ship, seized the rudder and held it so tightly that the 
ship stood still. The King marveled how this could happen ; and 
he remembered that it was the same woman that he had found in 
the wood by the sea-coast, and he said to her : • Let us go our 
way ; and if you have any matter to lay before us, come to my land, 
where I will receive you well, and abide with me.' Hereupon 
she let the ship go and swung herself again into the sea, and the 
King sailed homeward to his domain. 

"And when he had been home a half year there came to him a 
woman and said that she was with child bv him ; and he knew this 
woman well and had her brought to a house that belonged to him. 
And when she had dwelt there a short time she bare a child that 
was named JVdJc. Hereupon she would no longer remain there 
and vanished ; and none knows what has become of her since 
that. But the boy when he grew up became so tall that he was a 
giant ; he took after his mother altogether, and was not like other 
persons, but was ill-natured in his ways and was therefore nowhere 
welcome. His father, also, loved him little ; but before he died he 
gave hiin twelve estates in Seeland (a/so read Sweden and Sax- 
land)." 

Chapter 19 tells us of the giant Wade and his son Wieland 
as follows: "The giant Wade, the son of King Vilkinus and the mer- 
maid, dwelt now in Seeland on the estates which his father had 
given him, as has been before told. And it is not told of him 
that he was a war-hero, but he was satisfied with what his father 
had given him at the beginning. 

"Wade had a son who was caljed \\'ieland and was of exceeding 
good promise. When he was nine winters old. Wade would have 
him learn some craft ; he had heard of a smith in Heunenland who 
was called Mimer, and was of all smiths the most cunning. 
Thither fared the giant Wade with his son Wieland and gave him 
into Mimer's care, that he should learn to smithy iron. After that 
Wade returned home again to Seeland. 

"At that time there was with Mimir also, Siegfried, the valiant, 



1 8 The Wade Genealogy. 

and he did to his fellows much ill, struck and beat them. When 
the giant Wade heard that his son was also often beaten and 
abused by Siegfried, he came again and took him home to See- 
land. 

" Wieland had been three years in Heunenland and was twelve 
■winters old, and he remained now twelve months home with 
his father. He was thought well of by everybody and was also 
the most cunning of all men." 

Chapter 20 relates to the giant Wade and the dwarfs and of 
their death, and is in part as follows : " Now Wade heard in See- 
land that two dwarfs dwelt in a mountain that was called Kalleva. 
These dwarfs knew how to smithy better than any other, either of 
dwarfs or of men ; well did thev know how to make all iron-work, 
such as swords, armor and helmets ; also of gold and silver they 
could make all sorts of jewels ; and from everj^ ore that can be 
forged they could make whatever they would. 

" Then the giant Wade took his son Wieland and fared thither. 
And on the way he came to a sound that hight Groenasund {/) ; 
but there was no boat to set him over the sound, and he waited 
there some time. Now when he had waited long and no boat ap- 
peared, he took the boy, set him on his shoulders and waded 
through the sound, which was nine ells deep. More is not told of 
their journey until they came to the movmtain. 

" Wade went to the dwarfs and talked with them and said he had 
brought his son \\'ieland hither and would that they take the lad 
for twelve moons and teach him all kinds of smith work ; for that 
he would give them as much gold as they would agree for. The 
dwarfs said that they would take the lad and teach him ever}^ kind 
of craft if Wade would give them a mark {g) of gold. That he 
accepted and gave it to them forthwith. 

" The slant Wade now fared home to Seeland. But Wieland re- 
mainecl there and learned to smithy, and so easy to teach he was 
that he could forge after them whatever model they might give 
him. And so well did he serve the dwarfs that when Wade came 
for him at the time agreed they would not let him go. And now 

if). Between the islands of Zealand, Moen and Falster, in tlie Baltic 
Sea. 

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Origin of the Name of Wade. 19 

they begged Wade that the lad might stay again twelve moons 
there, and before Wieland should leave them they would rather 
give back again the mark of gold which they had taken for him, 
and they would teach him as many arts again as he had already 
learned. This offer Wade accepted and agreed with them for the 
day of his return. But the dwarfs rued it that they were to buy his 
services so dearly ; therefore they talked with Wade and demanded 
that if he should not come on the day agreed to fetch his son, they 
should be permitted to cut off the latter's head. These condi- 
tions Wade accepted and would now fare homeward. 

Then Wade talked with his son alone and bade him follow him 
outside the mountain ; this the lad did and then they spoke to- 
gether about many things. 

"Wade had a sword, which he took and thrust into a bog covered 
with bushes so that none of it could be seen. Then he said to 
^^'ieland: ' If I do not come on the day that is now agreed be- 
tween us and you need help, because the dwarfs wish to take 
your life, do you take this sword and defend yourself manfully ; 
for that is better than to be murdered by two dwarfs ; and I will 
that our kinsmen shall sav that I ha\'e begotten a man and not a 
woman. But I cannot think otherwise than that I shall come on 
the day agreed.' Then father and son parted and AA'ade fared 
homeward. 

....'• Now when the twelve moons were nearly past. Wade would 
go to fetch his son, rather too early than too late, because the way 
was long and he would not that he should come after the ap- 
pointed day. So he fared hence, and traveled both night and 
day until he came to the place which had been appointed ; and he 
came there three days earlier than had been agreed. But he 
found the mountain closed and could not get in ; so he lay down 
before the mountain and waited to see what would happen until 
the mountain should be opened to him. But from his continued 
journeying, and the long way, he was sore wearied, and so he went 
to sleep and slept very soundly and very long. He was not tender^ 
and he lay down just as he was, and he snored so that one could 
hear it far. But meanwhile there fell such a heavy rain that it 
was a marvel ; and at the same time there was a heavy earth- 
quake, and it loosed from the mountain above a cliff, which, with 



20 The Wade Genealogy. 

a stream of water, with trees, stones, rubbish and earth, over- 
whehned the giant ; and so did Wade lose his Hfe. 

"Now when tlie appointed day came the dwarfs opened the moun- 
tain, went out and looked around to see whether Wade had come 
for his son. Wieland also went out and down the precipice before 
the mountain and looked around for his father, but saw him no- 
where ; then he came to a valley and saw how a cliff had lately 
fallen, and straightaway it came to his mind that this cliff must 
have slain his father; and he saw that there was no revenge to be 
taken, and he thought now of what his father had counselled him 
before they parted, and sought where the sword might be hidden ; 
and at first he went to look by the cliff, but then he remembered 
that Wade had hidden the sword in a bush-covered bog, but this 
bog had been buried under the avalanche. Then \\'ieland knew 
that he was in sore need; his father was dead and he himself was 
destined to die. Again he looked about and saw on a sudden the 
sword hilt sticking up out of the ground. Then Wieland went 
thither and pulled the sword out. looked at it and said : ' W'hat 
need I now fear of being worsted !' 

" He saw how the dwarfs stood on a mountain and looked about, 
but they were not aware of Wieland's purpose. Wieland went 
now also to the mountain and had the naked sword under the 
folds of his mantle and let it not be seen; he went up to the one 
nearest him and gave him his death blow, and after that he slew 
the other. Then Wieland went into the mountain and took all 
their smith tools and all the gold and silver that he could find. 
Hereupon he took a horse that belonged to the dwarfs and 
loaded it with their gold and precious treasures ; he himself was 
laden with as much as he could earn", and now he turned north- 
ward toward Denmark. 

" \^'hen Wieland had gone three days as quickly as he could, he 
came to a great river that was called the \^'eser, and he could not 
cross it. And by the stream was a great wood and there he 
tarried some time ; and it was near the sea. Then Wieland 
made ready ; he went to a hill by tire shore and picked out a great 
tree, felled it to the earth, cut it in two and then hollowed it out 
inside ; and at the thinner end, where the branches grew, he 
placed his tools and his treasure, and where the trunk was thicker 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 2 1 

and roomier he put his food and drinks and himself got in, and 
then he closed the trunk so tightly that neither river nor 
sea could in any wise harm him ; and before the holes that were 
in the tree he put glasses, which were so arranged that he could 
remove them as quickly as he would ; but when the glasses were 
there no water could enter, just as if the tree had been without 
holes. So the tree lay on the bank of the stream, and in it 
Wieland with all his treasure and all his tools ; then he mo\-ed 
himself about in the trunk until it rolled into the water. This 
trunk was now carried out into the high seas and was driven 
about for eighteen days until it finally came to land." 

A synopsis of chapters 21-31 is as follows : " Wieland's boat 
Avent ashore in the domain of King Nidung, in Jutland, and he 
became his man. At first he served at the king's table, but 
through an accident he was enabled to show his skill as a smith. 
He made a trial of skill with Amilias, the king's smith, whom he 
defeated and slew. He then became King Nidung's smith, and 
Avas famed in all northern lands for his skill. 

" King Nidung marched forth with his army to meet an in\-ading 
enemy. When one day's march distant from them he found that 
he had forgotten his ' victory stone.' He called for a volunteer 
to return and get it, promising his daughter's hand and half his 
kingdom as reward. \\'ieland alone offered to make the attempt, 
which he succeeded in by riding the wonderful stallion Schinuning. 
On his return the king's lord high steward tried to take the stone 
from him by \-iolence, but Wieland slew him. For this the king 
banished him from his presence and Wieland disappeared, none 
knew where. 

" Finally Wieland returned disguised to King Nidung's court 
and found a place in the kitchen. In revenge he attempted to 
poison the king's daughter, but was detected through a knife 
which he had made to accomplish his purpose and which led to 
his identification. For punishment the sinews of his legs were 
cut, so that he was thereafter always lame. For a while he was ill 
treated, but was subsequently restored to favor and given charge 
again of the royal smithy. 

" Egil, Wieland's brother, came to King Nidung's court. He was 
a famous bowman, and to prove his skill the king compelled him 



2 2 The Wade Genealogy. 

to shoot an apple from the head of his three-year-old son. This 
master shot became far-famed. 

" Nidung had three sons and a daughter. The latter broke her 
best gold ring one day and sent it to Wieland to repair. He 
refused unless the princess should herself come to the forge. She 
did so, secretly, and Wieland restored the ring, but first he lay 
with her, and this matter both kept secret for a time. 

" Wieland quarreled with two of the King's sons and slew them, 
concealing their bodies. They were sought long but vainly, 
Finally Wieland took out the bodies, stripped the fiesh from the 
bones and from these made all sorts of utensils for the King-'s 
table. 

" The princess was with child, but told no one of Wieland's being 
its father. She loved him and would fain have married him. 
Wieland had now revenged himself on King Nidung and thought it 
best to make his escape, lest Nidung might learn of what he had 
done. With Egil's help he made a garment of feathers. He 
flew into the air and called to the King, who marvelled to see 
Wieland thus transformed. Wieland told him that he had killed 
his sons and lain with his daughter, and thus revenged himself. 
The King was wroth and bade Egil to shoot an arrow at the bird. 
Egil aimed and shot Wieland under the left arm, where the latter 
had tied a bag containing the princes' blood. When Nidung saw 
the blood he thought Wieland was mortally hurt. Wieland, how- 
ever, flew away to Seeland and dwelt there on the estates which 
Wade had possessed. Nidung died soon after and was succeeded 
by his son Otwin. The princess bore a male child, which 
was named Wittig (other sources say she was called Bodwild). 
Otwin was friendly to Wieland, invited him to return and gave 
him his sister in marriage, and Wieland continued to dwell in 
Jutland." 

In the Giidrun (or Kiidriiti) Wate occupies a very prominent 
place in the story. He is King Hettel's foremost vassal and 
counsellor and performs many important services. He is called 
the Wfl' («/- Venerable, about^Wise), the Valiant, the Wi'^e. Wate is 
lord of Sturmland. which he holds in fief from Hettel, King of 
the Hegelings. Like all of the other characters in the epic Wate 
is wholly unhistorical. The poem is a blending of myth and 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 23 

legend, and was originally a tale of the gods which in the course 
of centuries became transferred to heroes. (The Gudriin was 
written down in its present form about a. d. i 190-1200, but the 
songs on which the folk-epic is based probably existed many cen- 
turies before. The geography of the poem is not certain, but the 
land of the Hegelings was probably on the coast of the North 
Sea, and Sturmland {i)r Sturmen) was probably adjacent to 
Frisia.) 

Some of Wate's deeds in Gudrun are the foUowincf : " Kins: 
Hettel had heard of the beauty of Hilde, daughter of King Hagen 
of Irlaiid. With Horant and Frute of Denmark, also Hettel's 
vassals, Wate sails to Irland. They pretend to be merchants, 
give rich presents to Hagen and ask his protection, declaring 
they have been exiled by Hettel. At court Wate especially 
attracts the attention of the ladies by his splendid stature and 
attire. During a tourney Wate fights with Hagen and proves 
himself a master-swordsman. Thev remain in Irla?id some time, 
until finally Hilde and her young women go aboard their ships 
one day to see their splendid treasures, whereupon they sail 
away and bear the princess to Walcis (not Wales, but the site of 
the present Netherlands), where Hettel receives them joyfully. 
Hagen subsequently makes an expedition against Hettel. In 
fierce combat he wounds Hettel and is himself wounded by Wate. 
(The foregoing deeds seem to belong to Wate's younger days.) 

"Hettel and Hilde have a daughter, Gudrun, like her mother, of 
famous beaut)-. She is wooed unsuccessfully by Siegfried of 
Murla?id, Hartmut of Ormanie (Normandie) and Herwig of Seehvid. 
The last named attacked Hettel with a large army. A fearful 
combat ensues and Gudrun begs that they make peace. Herwig 
again sues for her love, wins it, and they are betrothed. He 
returns to his land and is subsequently attacked by Siegfried of 
Morland. At Gudrun's request Hettel goes to his help. During 
his absence Hartmut comes and abducts Gudrun, with thirty or 
more of her women, carrying them off to Seeland. Messengers 
take the news to Hettel and Herwig, and on Wate's advice they 
make peace with the Moors ancl pursue the abductors. By 
Wate's advice, also, they seize the ships of some pilgrims whom 
he knows to be not far away. This seizure seems to have brought 



2 4 The Wade Genealogy. 

disaster to them. (The author seems to connect pilgrims with 
one of the crusades, a matter of no historical significance). They 
overtake the abductors at the Widfensand (or Wul/enwerder'^, an 
island in the mouth of the Schelde. A fearful battle is fought, in 
which Wate was foremost in dealing death to the enemy. King 
Hettel was slain by Ludwig, Hartmut's father. During the night 
following the battle, which was to be resumed on the next morn- 
ing, the Normans stole away. The Hegelings do not attempt 
pursuit, for their ranks have been terribly depleted. Wate alone 
dared to take the sad news to Queen Hilde, of the defeat and her 
husband's death. For thirteen years no attempt is made to 
rescue Gudrun and take revenge on the Normans, but at the end 
of that time enough of the Hegeling youth have grown up to make 
the expedition possible. Wate, now an old man, but with undi- 
minished strength and fierceness, leads the expedition. They 
reach Normandv and attack the fortress. When the besie£:ed see 
Old Wate, they dread him as they would " a fierce and savage 
lion." Long and fearful waged the battle, the lines flowing back 
and forth like the waves of the sea. One there was that never 
yielded an inch on this day, and that was old Wate. Terror went 
before him, death and horror followed him. Finally Wate and 
Hartmut came together, and only with difficulty did Herwig sepa- 
rate them, Gudrun having besought him to do so for the sake of 
Hartmut's sister Otrun, who had treated Gudrun kindly during her 
captivity. Then Wate, more furious than ever, stormed through 
the castle slaying men, women, and even children in their cradles. 
The wicked Queen Gerlind, who had treated Gudrun most cruelly 
because she persistently refused to break her vows to Herwig 
and marry her (Gerlind's) son Hartmut, Wate seized and dragged 
out into the great hall, where he cut off her head. Wate would 
have burned the castle, but the counsel of Frute and other leaders 
dissuaded him." 

As compared with Wade of the \'i!ki)ia Sdga,i\\e most import- 
ant difference in Wate is his fierce warlike nature. Wade, in the 
Vilkina Saga, is said to have had the wild ways of his mother, 
but does not appear as a warrior. He dwells contentedly on his 
estates in SeeLand, except when he goes to apprentice his son 
Wieland to the smiths. It is believed that Wate did not origin- 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 25 

ally belong to the Gudritu story, as he does not appear in the 
Scandanavian version. He seems to have been conceived by 
some as a storm-giant, the name of his domain {Stur?!im) perhaps 
giving such suggestion. In the Gudnin are found several traces 
of his superhuman nature and origin. He is said to have had the 
strength of twentv-six men. his stature strikes terror, in his furv he 
rages and roars like a lion. He blows a horn (/2 ) that can be heard 
thirty miles, and its blast causes the sea to foam and the castle walls 
to tremble. He possessed the power to heal wounds, which art 
he had learned from a wild woman (probably his mother, the 
mermaid Wachilt.) 

Wate has characteristics that belong to Wuotan and has prob- 
ably been developed from the god for the purposes of the hero- 
legend. Wuotan possessed the healing art. as is noted above of 
Wate. Wuotan (or Odin) is represented with a great beard ; 
Wate in Giidnin has a beard a yard in width. The god is spoken 
of as aged or venerable : so, too, Wate. even early in the poem, 
when he would in natural order of things be still in his prime, for 
thirty years later he is still the same fierce, invincible warrior. 
As Wuotan was the source of power, the one who decided the 
issue of war and battle, so Wate is the organizer and leader of 
warlike expeditions and the chief counsellor in important crises. 
Finally it may be noted that the exploits of Wate are identified 
with the scenes of Wuotan's activity, viz., Denmark and the Neth- 
erlands. 

Chaucer is not the only early author who refers to Wade, for in 
the old English romance of Sir Bcvis of Hampton, (South- 
ampton), (/) we find 

After Josianis cristing 
Beues dede a gret fighting, — 
Swich bataile ded never non 

{li) It is curious how this horn legend has been preserved in the 
family of Wade. A horn is to-day in the possession of William de 
Vins Wade, Esq., of Great Dunmo^v, Essex, England, with an inscrip- 
tion of "Wada" upon it. A half-tone illustration of this cviriosity 
appears in Chapter II, with full description. 

{i) Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth 
Centuries; published bv Henry Weber, Vol. Ill (Edinburgh, iSio, 
small Svc), page 315. Wade's adventure with the dragon is only 
alluded to in the Auchinleck and vStafford MSS of Sir Bevis. 



2 6 The Wade Genealogy. 

Cristene man of flesch and bon — 

Of a dragoun thar beside, 

That Beues slough ther in that tide: 

Save Sir Launcelot de Lake, 

He faught with a fur-drake, {j ) 

And U^ade dcde also, 

And never knightes boute thai to. 

And Gij of Warwick ich under stonde 

Slough a dragoun in Northhomberlonde. 

Sir Thomas Mallory in his Morte d' Arthur (Vol. i, p. 229, 

Edit. 1816, 2 vols.; Wright's Edit. 1858, 3 vols., I c. 126, p. 247; 

Macmillan Edit, by Strachey, 1879, *^^P- 9' P- ^35)' ^^'hich in 1469 

embodied many romances of the Crusaders, refers to the prowess 

and bravery of Wade as proverbial. The passage occtns in a 

scene between a distressed damsel and the knight Sir Beatunains, 

on which Tennyson clearly founded his Garelh and LyneUe, and is 

as follows : 

"And then she said to Sir Beaumains: ' Why followest thou me, 
thou kitchen boy ? Cast away thy shield and speare, I counsaile thee 
yet, and flee away betimes or thou shalt say soon, alas ! for were thou 
as wight (brave) as ever was Wade, or Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram, 
or the good knight. Sir Lamorake, thou shalt not pass a pace hereby, 
that is called the pace perilous (pass perilous.')" 

From these quotations it would appear clear that at one time 
there was current in England a series of folk-stories as to the 
exploits of this hero Wade. That these stories are lost seems due 
to the execrable carelessness of Speght, who, in his editions of 
Chaucer (London, folios 1598 and 1602), passes over in his glos- 
sary the words " Wade's bote " with the remark, " Concerning 
Wade and his bote called Guingelot, as also his strange exploits 
in the same, because the matter is long and fabulous, I pass it 
over." 

" Tantemne rem tarn negligenter ?'' says Tyrwhitt (Edition of 
Chaucer, (1843),) *^^ ^'^'^ predecessor, Speght, " who, in his commen- 
tary^ on Chaucer, has omitted as trivial and fabulous the story of 
Wade and his bote Guingelot, to the great prejudice of posterity ; 
the memorv' of the hero and the boat now being entirely lost ;" 
adding, " Mr. Speght probably did not foresee that posterity would 
be as much obliged to him for a little of this fabulous matter 
concerning Wade and his bote as for the gravest of his annota- 
tions." 

(j) A fur-drake is, of course, a fire drake or fiery dragon. 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 27 

See also Sir \\'alter Scott, Lay 0/ /he Last Minstrel, 4to, Lon- 
don (1S05) p. 23S. 

The question arises as one of considerable moment for the 
present work — who was this hero Wade whose exploits were so 
famous at one time as to have formed part of the folk-lore and 
folk-song of old England ? Irreparable as is the loss caused by 
Speght's carelessness, M. Francisque Michel, an erudite French- 
man, has done posterity much service by collecting, in the form of 
a letter to M. Henri Ternaux-Compans. all that is known in rela- 
tion to Une Tradifidii Angloise Du May en Age. This pamphlet, 
published in 1S37, and now extremely rare, affords an inter- 
esting amount of information as to this once-popular hero Wade. 
From it we learn that in an enumeration of the heroes of Romance, 
found in a manuscript translation of Guido Colonna, which is 
dubiously attributed to Lydgate, and is preserved in the Bodleian 
Library of Oxford University (Laud, K. 76, f. i, MSS. Bibl. Bodl. 
Cod. Memb.) there occurs this reference to our ancestral hero : — 

Many speke of men that romaunces rede 

Of Bevys, Gy and Ga\va\-ne 

Of Kyng Rychard and Owayne, 

Of Tristram and Percy vale, 

Of Rowland ris and Aglavaule, 

Of Archeroun, and of Octavian, 

Of Charles, and of Cassibedlan, 

Of K(H)eveloke, Home, atid 0/ JVade, 

In romaunces that of hem bi made 

That gestours dos of him gestes 

At mangeres and at great festes 

Here dedis ben in remembraunce 

In many fair romaunce {k). 

Sir Francis Kynaston. in his Latin translation of Chaucer's 
Troilus and Cresseide (London (1796), Svo., p. xvi), adds in his 
commentary the following note : — 

" In his (Chaucer's) time there was a foolish fabulous legend of one 

Wade and his boate Guingelot, wherein he did many 

strange things and had many wonderfull adventures, not much unlike 
that man and his boate in our time who layed a wager that never 
going out of his boate and without any other helpe but himselfe, he 
would in a certaine number of days go by land and by water from 
Abingdon (Oxfordshire) to London, and in his passage would go over 
the top of a square steepel by the wav, which thing he performed, and 
woune his wager." 

{k) See Warton's History of English Poetry, Price's Edition, Vol. 
I, p. 123 note/. 



28 The Wade Genealogy. 

Then Kynaston, having quoted the passages in Cliaucer and 
Lj'dgate relating to Wade and the notes of Speght and Tyrwhitt 
on the same subject, is followed by Joseph Ritson in his Ancit:nt 
English Metrical Romances (1803), V^ol. Ill, pp. 265 and 266, who 
says: — "He (Wade) is suspected to have been either a Scot or a 
Pict, and to have been the chief or leader in an irruption through 
the Roman Wall ; in which was a chasm known, in old time, by 
the name of Wade-gapp (/). (That there was such a place, we 
find from the Roll of Escheats of 10 Elizabeth (A.D. 1568) 
wherein occurs this entry : — " Robertus Thurlwall fuit seisitus de 
et in manerio de Thurlwall, Lowbyre, le Hill, Chappel, Wades 
Gapp, Cruke, Wardhaw-hill, Shawtield, Dirt-house, Over-hill, Brow- 
houses, Brunt- W^alls, Holly-house, cum terris in Hexham, Estree, 
Newbrugh, Haltwesel, Byddlesse, et Blind-gapp.") 

Conybeare, in his Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (1826, 

8vo., p. Ixxviii), says : — " Chaucer enumerates the adventures 

of Wade and his boat, a fiction also of the same school (see 

Vilkina Saga), among the romances of price ; so that we have 

probably lost a Saxon poem on this subject." 

Sir Walter Scott (^/r 'Iristem; a metrical romance of the thirteenth- 
century; by Thomas of Ercildoune, called the Rhymer. (Edited 
from the Auchinleck MS., 1804, 8vo., p. Ixi; Edinboro edition. 
1819, p. Ixiii,) thus refers to the matter: — "The romance of 
Wade, twice alluded to by Chaucer, but now lost, was probably a 
Border composition. The castle of this hero stood near the 
Roman Wall, which he is supposed to have surmounted ; and it 
was long inhabited by his real or fancied descendants. It is 
absurd to suppose that the Norman minstrels came into these 
remote corners of the kinsfdom to collect or even celebrate the 
obscure tradhions of their inhabitants ; although, finding them 
already versified, they might readily translate them in their own 
language." 

As to the question of a personal Wade and his nationality, we find 
that doctors differ, as Thomas Wright, the famous English anti- 
quary, wrote to M. Erancisque Michel as follows : — " All that 
Ritson and Scott say about Wade's being a Scotchman, and the 

(/) See Wallis' History of Nor thu)iiber land {1769), ^to., Vol. II, 
p. 3, note e. 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 29 

romance having originated on the Border, is great nonsense. The 
old Northern and Saxon romances existed in two different forms 
in England. First they were preserved in the romances of the 
mythic cycles, which romances were, according to the manner of 
their forefathers, long sung in the halls of the Saxon nobles. The 
subjects of these romances were perhaps many of them more 
popular in one tribe than another, and amongst the people of that 
tribe the tradition was more vivid. As these tribes settled in 
different parts of England they brought these traditions with them, 
and, as doubtlessly in the country whence they came these tradi- 
tions were located in particular positions, so when in their new 
settlements in England the mind of the people among whom any 
particular tradition was popular, which naturally preserves its 
traditions by local associations, soon regarded the old stories as 
referring to the places and objects which were every day before 
their eyes, and there sprung up Wade's castles and Wade's gaps, 
and the like. The romances are, unfortunately, in most cases 
lost; but the names which popular tradition had given to places 
and things remain, while even the traditions themselves are but 
faintly remembered ; and hence people have been often led into 
the error of making Scotch and English heroes of a compara- 
tively modern date out of names which have reference to the 
earliest period of Teutonic Mytholog}^" 

Thus, we see, Wright, who is a standard authority on the Saxon 
era, is of the opinion that all tradition of Wade is of the earliest 
Teutonic origin ; in other words, that he is identical with Wada, 
the father of Weland. so famed in the folk-lore of Scandanavia 
and Germany. Weland, be it said, was the most famous of smiths 
and all good swords are his work. It is curious also that the 

Wilkina Saga makes Weland the constructor of a wondrous boat, 
so that tradition may have transferred the art of the son to the 
father. 

• How widespread was the name, or at least the tradition of 
Wade's exploits, may be gathered from the fact that legendary 
Japanese history mentions a celebrated general and noted archer, 

Wada Voshinori by name, who served under Yoritomi in the 12th 
century. 

It is remarkable also that Carlyle, Heroes and Hero- Worship, 



3° 



The Wade Genealogy. 



probably supplies us with the solution of the whole difficulty as to 
the derivation of the surname Wade, and in so doing coincides 
with Thomas Wright. He says : — " The word Wiiotan which is 
the original form of Odin, a word spread, as the name of their 
chief divinity, over all the Teutonic nations everywhere ; this 
word, which connects itself, according to Grimm with the Latin 
ZKjdere, with the English Wade, and such like, means primarily, 
movement, source of movement, power." 

But let the iconoclast have a say. Writing over the initials 
H. C. K., in N'o/es and Queries, June 26, 1858, an unknown 
critic thus summarily would dispose of the original Wade. He 
says : — " Wade's bote. Tyrwhitt's note on this passage is amus- 
ing. After lamenting Speght's want of copiousness, he is of the 
opinion that ' the allusion in the present passage to Wade's bote 
can hardly be explained without a more particular account of his 
adventures than we are likely ever to attain.' .... The 
meaning of the passage in modern English is, that January, the 
hero of the tale, is as much afraid of widows as Mr. Weller, senior, 
and for much the same reason, viz., " They connen so moch 
craft " in cases of breach of promise of marriage ! " Wade's 
bote "' is simply the forfeit of a pledge — our English term, wed ^ 
comes to us from the Teutonic. Schilter (Gloss. Tent.) gives ive/t, 
pignus, Ang.-Sax. pactum, speciatim pactum sponsalitium. The 
old Germans had luad. This Anglo-Saxon zved or ivedd is a 
promise, pledge, or earnest, from weddian, to bargain, make a vow 
or contract, to wed, or betroth. As zved then indicates the con- 
tract before marriage, so bote is the forfeit or reparation for the 
breaking thereof. Hence we have the Anglo-Saxon bol, compen- 
sation paid to an injured party, boot, recompense, amends, whence, 
io bote, — to boot, with advantage. Thus " Wade's bote,''' instead 
of being an illusion to a legendary tale of Wade, his bote is noth- 
ing more than damages paid for breach of promise of marriage. 
Part of the phrase, " wade,'' is again used by Chaucer, Troilus and 
Cresseide III, 615, where the meaning is evidently a tale of love- 
making or espousals." 

How this erudite (?) iconoclast would explain the meaning of 
passages such as "and Wade dede also" and "as wight as 
Wade " in catalogues of the famous heroes of romance is a riddle 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 31 

more inscrutable than the face cf the Sphinx. Perhaps he would 
have a solution similar to the above for such names as Lancelot 
du Lac, Guy of War\Yick and Richard Coeur de Lion ! 

One thing seems certain; that is, as early as A. I)., 798. there 
were one or more famous Anglo-Saxon chiefs named Wade. On 
this point we have the following testimony. Matthew of West- 
minster, in his /''A^/'^'J ///^^/v'(?/v/w (edition of 1601, folio, p. 151, 
line 11), tells us that "about the same time (i. e., A. D. 798,) 
Eardulfus, King of the Northumbrians, met in battle at a place 
called Billingeho (now Langbo Fell) with Wade, the leader, and 
certain of his fellow conspirators." 

The Anglo-Sa.xon Chronich\ under the date 798, says : — " This 
year there was a great fight at Hwelleage (Whalley). in the land 
of the Northumbrians, during Lent, on the 4th before the Nones 
of April, and there Alric, the son of Herbert, was slain, and many 
others with him." 

Roger of Hovenden (p. 406, line 2,) is exact as to date, and 
states that Duke Wade led the revolt in 7 98 ; that the battle 
occurred at Billingahon juxta Wallalege (i. e., Langbo Fell, near 
Whalley in Lancashire), and that Wade and his fellow conspira- 
tors were defeated and forced to flee. 

Simeon of Durham has the following reference to this battle : — 
"A. D. 798. A conspiracy having been organised by the murder- 
ers of Ethelred the King. Wada, the chief of that conspiracy, 
commenced a war against Eardulph, and fought a battle at a 
place called by the English Billangahoh, near Walalega, and, 
after many had fallen on both sides, Wada and his army was 
totally routed." Apparently he deals with a more southern Saxon 
leader of the same name in speaking of a battle in 854 between 
Earl Ealchere and Duke Wade on the one side and the pagans on 
the other, as he locates the battle in the Isle of Thanet, in Kent 
(s^Q Simeonis Dunelmciisis His/oria, col. 140, line i). This same 
Wade is called Huda by the historian, Florence of Worcester 
(Edition of 1601, p. 583. line 12). 

Further references to Duke Wada appear in Camden's Britan- 
nia (1695) (/), wherein, after describing an Abbey founded by 

(/) For references to Wade see Camden's i?;v7r?;/;//(Z, Gough's edition, 
Vol. Ill, p. 18; col. I, p. So, col. 2; p. 252, col. I, and p. 245, col. 2. 



32 The Wade Genealogy. 

Hilda, near Whitby, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the author 
goes on to state that " hard by upon a steep hill near the sea 
(which yet is between two that are much higher) a castle of V\'ada, 
a Saxon duke, is said to have stood, who (in the confused disor- 
derly times of the Northumbrians so fatal to petty princes), hav- 
ing combined with those that murdered King Ethelred, gave bat- 
tie to King Ardulph at Whalley. in Lancashire, but with such ill 
fortune that his army was routed and himself forced to fly for it. 
Afterwards he fell in a distemper, which killed him, and was 
interred on a hill between two hard stones about seven feet high, 
which being at twelve feet distance from one another, occas*ions a 
current report that he was a gyant in bulk and stature." Camden 
makes the following marginal note : — '' Duke Wada, from whom 
the family of Wade derive their pedigree — the year 798 — Wade's 
grave." 

Camden also refers to Wade when describing Whalley, in Lan- 
cashire, as follows: — "Here in year 798 Duke Wada unfortu- 
nately engaged Ardulph, King of the Northumbrians, at Bil- 
langbo, now by contraction Langbo." And again in reference to 
Thirlwall Castle, Northumberland, he savs : — " Near this stands 
Thirlwall Castle (no large structure), which gave a seat and sir- 
name to that ancient and honorable family the Thirlwalls (w) 
which had formerly the name of Wade." 

The author of •'Pendle Hill in History and Lilera/ure," thus 
refers to the Revolt of Wada : — " Dr. Whitaker, the prince of local 
historians, Mr. Charles Hardwick, and other chiefs of the Archaeo- 
logical fraternity, amongst whom we must not forget to mention 
Canon Raines, have devoted with commendable patience, time, 
energy and money to mapping out the scene of a great conflict 
wdiich undoubtedly, once upon a time took place on the flank of 
Langbo Fell. The Tumuli which are always conspicuous features 
of these very early battle fields, are much in evidence on this 
particular site. Canon Raines in one of his works published for 

(;;/) As to the Thirlwalls of Thirlwall in Northumberland, see Geneal- 
ogist W, 253, SiwA Hodgson' s Xortlnnnberland III, ii, 145. They boi e 
for arms a chevron between three boars' heads erased, and it is 
remarkable that this boars' head charge appears on the coat of arms of 
Maximillian Wade (of London, from county of Dorset), allowed at the 
Visitation of London in 1633-4. {^fiQ post, chapter IL) 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 33 

the Chetham Society tells us that "In the year 1836 as Thomas 
Hubbersley, the farmer at Brockhall, was removing a large mound 
of earth in Brockhall Eavis, about 500 yards from the bank of the 
Ribble, on the edge of the road leading from the House, he 
discovered a Kist-vaen (or tomb) formed of rude stones contain- 
ing some human bones and the rusty remains of some spear heads 
of iron. The whole crumbled to dust on exposure to the air. 
Tradition has uniformly recorded that a battle was fought about 
Langbo, Elker and Buckfoot near the river Ribble. But what 
about the battle that took place here ? We have a far richer 
treasury- of information on this point than we usually are fortunate 
enough to possess in relation to such matters. The Aftglo-Saxon 
Chrotiic/e under the date 798 records, "This year there was a 
great fight at Hwelleage (which is understood to be Whalley in 
the land of the Northumbrians) during Lent, on the 4th before 
the Nones of April, and there Alric, the son of Herbert, was slain 
and many of those with him." Simeon of Durham under the 
same date says that "a conspiracy having been organized by the 
murderers of Ethelred the King, Wada, the chief of the conspiracy, 
commenced a war against Eardulph. and fought a battle at a 
place called by the English Billangahoh near Walalega, and after 
many bad fallen on both sides Wada and his army were totally 
routed." At the time when this great conflict took place the north, 
of England must have been in a most miserable state. The lead- 
ing spirit in this great battle was a certain Wada and certainly 
there is some ground in the name itself for giving special interest 
to this great struggle which took place in the later Saxon times at 
the foot of Pendle. We have already referred to the village of 
Waddington; and the enthusiasts of the Kemble school of Saxon 
etymology will have it that Waddington means simply the settle- 
ment or town or home of Wada, so that they establish immediately 
an inferential connection between the revolted chieftain who with- 
stood his king at Billangahoh, and this village of Waddington at the 
very foot of Pendle. In confirmation of this theory they also 
point with a good deal of reason to the neighboring village 
Waddow as meaning the howe or the hill of Wada. But 
notwithstanding infinite pains in research nobody has yet 
been able to give us any satisfactory account of who Wada 



34 The Wade Genealogy. 

himself was. Of course it will be remembered that we have our- 
selves adventured the opinion that Waddow and VVaddington in- 
stead of having any connection whatever with any individual chief, 
owe their names in reality to the adoration once offered at or near 
them to the old deity Woden. Mr. Charles Hardwick in his 
monograph, SotJic Ancient Battlefields in Lancashire, &fc., 
(1882), pp. 130-147, has certainly shown most commendable in- 
dustry in collecting together a museum of references to personages 
or creatures of the imagination, who once rejoiced in the name of 
Wada. We are told that a chief so called is mentioned in the 
Anglo-Saxon poem called TAe Traveler's Tale as being one of the 
chiefs of the Haelsings ; and we are reminded that Mr. Haigh, 
in his Anglo-Saxon Sagas regards him as probably one of the com- 
panions of the first Hengist. From this Mr. Hardwick infers that 
the W^ada of Waddow and Waddington and the hero of the battle 
of Langbo, was a descendant of this prehistoric adventurer. Then 
again we are told that amongst the heroes of heathen tradition 
Wada is celebrated in ways that have still left their trace in Eng- 
land. One of the marvels attributed to him in the ancient myths 
is that he waded across an arm of the sea carrjdng his son on his 
shoulder. Mr. Kemble certainly seems to find some remote ref- 
erence to this particular legend when he recalls that Chaucer once 
or twice refers to " Wade's boat " in such a way as to show that 
the expression was used in an obscene sense ; but then it is the 
common fate of those Avho are heroes and demi-gods in one age 
to be regarded as laughing stocks in periods of later time. The 
good fortune of King Eardulph deserted him on a future occasion. 
Hhe.' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says 'A. D. 806 — This year the moon 
was eclipsed in the Kalends of September and Eardulph, King of the 
Northumbrians, was driven from his kingdom.' This is the last 
we hear, says Mr. Hardwick, of the victor of Billangahoh ; and the 
manner of his exit from the historic stage would seem to indicate 
that his rule like that of his predecessor had become so intolerable 
that further revolts ensued and that Wada's sucessors, whoever 
they may have been, being successful in their contumacy, would 
be regarded not as traitors, but as saviours of their country. 
Truly in struggles of this character successful rebels writing their 
own history are ever lauded as heroes or patriots, while discom- 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 35 

fited rulers are with equal verity denounced as tj-rants and 
enemies of the common weal. After a minute examination of 
every detail still observable Mr. Hardwick comes to the conclu- 
sion that Wada and his allies on leaving Waddington crossed 
the Hodder at the ford nearest its mouth, met the king's army on 
the banks of the Ribble and the possession of Bullasey was the 
immediate object of the encounter in which the rebellious chieftain 
was discomfited ; or the route may have been reversed ; Wada 
may have crossed the Ribble at Bungerley " hipping stones " to 
the northwest of Clitheroe, and after penetrating the northern por- 
tion of the present county had to fall back before the advance of 
the King's army and, unable to retrace his steps, made for the 
nearest ford at Bullasey where he was pursued and defeated across 
the river." 

Mr. Kemble (S(rxo?is in England) says : — " Among the heroes 
of heathen tradition are Wada, VVeland and Eigil. All three so 
celebrated in the myths and epos of Scandinavia and Germany, 
have left traces in England. Of Wada, the Traveler s Song 
declared that he ruled the Haelsings ; and even later times had 
to tell of Wade's boat, in which the exact allusion is unknown to 
us ; the Scandinavian story makes him wade across the Groena- 
sund, carrying his son across his shoulder. Perhaps our tradi- 
tion gives a different version of this story." 

This story may have something to do with the genesis of the 
legend of St. Christopher bearing the infant Christ on his shoul- 
ders over a broad stream, a subject of one of the early mediaeval 
pictures discovered some time ago, on the removal of the white- 
wash from the walls of Gawsworth Church, near Macclesfield, in 
Cheshire. The historical anachronism, in ascribing such an 
action to him, may have resulted from the mere transference of it 
from the pagan hero to the Christian saint. The original story 
seems to have been pretty familiar to the people as late as the 
fourteenth century. Mr. John R. Green, in his Making 0/ Eng- 
land, says : — " In the star-strewn track of the Milky Way, our 
fathers saw a road by which the hero-sons of Waetla marched 
across the sky, and poetry only hardened into prose when they 
transferred the name of Watling street to the great trackway which 
passed athwart the island they had won, from London to Chester. 



36 The Wade Genealogy. 

The stones of Weyland's Smithy still recall the clays when the 
new settlers told one another, on the conquered ground, the won- 
drous tale they had brought with them from their German home, 
the tale of the godlike smith, Weland, who forged the arms that 
none could blunt or break ; just as they told around Wadanbury 
and Wadanhlaew the strange tale of Wade and his boat. When 
men christened mere and tree with Scyld's name, at Scyldsmere 
and Styldstreow, they must have been familiar wich the stor}.' of the 
godlike child who came over the waters to found the royal line of 
the Gwissas. So a name like Hnaef's-scylf was then a living part 
of English mythology ; and a name like Aylesbury may preserve 
the last trace of the legend told of Weland's brother, the sun- 
archer, Egil." 

Leland, in his Itinerary (Vol. i, p. 59), speaking of Mulgrave 
Castle, near Scarborough in Yorkshire, says : — " Mougreve cas- 
telle stondish upon a craggy hille ; and on ech side of it is an hille 
far higher then that whereon the castelle stondish. The north 
hille on the toppe of it hath certen stones communely caullid 
Waddes Grave (n), whom the people there say to have bene a 
gigant and ouner of Mougreve." 

Hinderwell, in his History and Antiquities of Scarborough, York- 
shire (2nd Edition 181 1. pages 18 and 19), thus refers to another 
instance of the folk-stoiy of Wade : — 

'' What makes it, (the village of Dunsley), more considerable is a 
Roman road which leads from it, many miles over these vast 
moors and morasses towards York. This extraordinary road, at 
present disused, is called by the country people Wade's Causey 
(i. e.. Causeway), concerning which they relate a ridiculous tradi- 
tional story of Wade's wife and her cow (0). It is, however, 

(«) Dr. Young's History of Whitby, Yorkshire (1S17), says Wade 
lived within four miles of Whitby. See also Charlton's Whitby, p. 40. 

{0) The fabulous history is, that Wade had a cow, which his wife was 
obhged to milk at a great distance, on these moors, and for her better 
convenience he made this causeway, and she helped him by bringing 
great quantities of stones in her apron ; but the strings breaking once 
with the weight, as well they might, a huge heap (about twenty cart 
loads) is shown that dropped from her, and the supposed rib of his 
monstrous cow is still shown to such as visit Mulgrave Castle. A local 
author conceives this rib to be the bone of a whale, but admits that 
the common people are still infatuated with the ancient opinion. 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 



37 



Avorthy of observation, that this name accords with Camden's 
Saxon duke Wada, who, he says, Uved at a castle on these coasts, 
and probably in the deserted Roman fortress or station. Two 
stones, about seven feet high, and placed at twelve feet distance, 
are called Wade's Grave, as they believe that this Saxon prince 
Avas a giant. These stones are, probably, ancient sepulchral 
monuments." 

How widespread was this tradition of Wade and how scattered 
and numerous were his descendants, and this at a very early date 
appears from the Doomsday Survey. In its quaint characters we 
find Wade as the name of a tenant in par avail, probably a Saxon, 
holding land before the survey. Wado, Wadolo, Wadel, Wadellus 
and Wadele are also names recorded in the survey. Wadellus 
held land near Wadefaste and Wadesbridge, in North Cornwall. 
But as place-names the principal usage of Wade appears. There 
is a Deepwade Hundred in Norfolk and has been from Dooms- 
day to this day. We find Wad in Gerlestre Wapentake in 
the West Riding of Yorkshire, a Wadberge in Clent Hundred, of 
the county of Worcester; two Wades in the West Riding of York 
and three instances in Lincolnshire. There is a Wadeham in 
Devonshire, a Wadescel in Derbyshire, a Wadingham in Lincoln- 
shire, a Wadefeste in Cornwall and Wadetuna (now Watton) and 
Wade's Beck Bridge, near Thursford, in the county of Norfolk. 
The county of Kent had several instances. There is a parish 
near the Isle of Sheppey once called Iwade, but now called 
Warde. Wadeslade is a manor in the parish of Chatham; Waden- 
hall and Wadling are manors in the parishes of Waltham and Rip- 
ple respectively. There is a parish of Landwade in the county of 
Cambridge, while Biggleswade (/>) in Bedfordshire, Lasswade {(]) 
in Scotland, and Wade in the North Island of New Zealand, con- 
vince us that the Wades wandered from Dan to Beersheba and 
left their marks on the land in place-names. 

(/) Biggleswade == Biggie's ford, over the river Ivel, now replaced 
by a stone bridge. Wath (as luat) a shallow wading place. 

{q) Between five and six miles from Edinburgh, lies a small village, 
scarcely more than a hamlet, consisting now of only a few old houses, 
thatched with peat ; a blacksmith's forge, and humble, little chapel, 
it is yet on tlie high road from Edinburgh to the east 

I was impressed with its odd sounding name to inquire of our 



38 The Wade Genealogy. 

To the courtesy of Mr. Daniel Treharne Newton-Wade of New- 
port, Monmouthshire, England, the compiler is indebted for the 
following list of Wade place-names in England and Wales. It 
proves, if anything, that at a very early date the Wades flourished 
" wherever the hazel grew." The list follows: — 

Wadborough, a hamlet, Holy Cross parish, County of Worcester. 
Waddesdon, (r) a parish, near Aylesbury, County of Buckingham. 
Waddingham (or Wadingham), a parish, near Caistor, County of 

Lincoln. 
Waddington, a parish, near Lincoln, County of Lincoln. 
Waddington, a chapelry, parish of i\Iitton, County of York (West 

Riding). 
Waddingworth, a parish, near Horncastle, Coiinty of Lincoln. 
Waddon, a hamlet, parish of Portisham, County of Dorset. 
Waddon, a hamlet, parish of Croydon, County of Surrey. 
Wade and Ower, a tything, parish of Eling, County of Hampshii'e. 
Wadebridge, a small seaport town in Egleshayle and Great Breville 

parishes, County of Cornwall (s). 
Wadeford, a place near Chard, T'ounty of Somerset. 
Wadenhoe. a parish, near Oundle, County of Northampton. 
Wade's Causeway, a Roman road in Yorkshire, from Stamford Bridge 

past Malloii, Broughton and Cawthorn to Mulgrave Castle, near 

Whitby (/). 
Wadesmill (//), a hamlet, near Standon, County of Hertford. 
Wadhurst (7/), a parish, near Ticehurst, County of Sussex. 
Wadley, a tything, parish of Great Farringdon, County of Berkshire. 
Wadsley, a chapelry, near Ecclesfield, County of York (West Ridmg). 
Wadswall and Wadswick, two hamlets, parish of Box, County of 

Wilts. 
Wadsworth, a township, parish of Halifax, County of York (West 

Riding). 

driver, the meaning of its curious title, Lasswade. He told me the fol- 
lowing quaint tradition : About a century and a half ago the only 
means of fording the stream was either by one's individual exertions 
in the matter of leaping from stone to stone, or by the equally primi- 
tive method of being carried bodily. A ferry of even the rudest 
description was unknown. 

When desirous of crossing by other than the first means mentioned 
it was the custom of the inhabitants to station themselves at the 
water's edge and halloo " Lass wade !" In response to this salutation, 
a stalwart-looking lassie would step forward, and. hoisting the intend- 
ing passenger upon her shoulders, wade through the tumbling waters. 
On depositing her burden on the other side, she received her two- 
pence toll and waded back again. And so it was that the little settle- 
ment came in time to be known as " Lasswade." 

" The Legend of Lasswade." Current Lite7-alH7-e, Jan., 1898. 

(r) Called Wodesdon in a charter of 37 Hen. VL (i. e., A. D i459)- 

(.f) Wadebridge, in the opinion of Cornish antiquaries, derives its 
name from the ancient family of Wade, long settled at nearby Tinta- 
gel and Boscastle. As to these ^qh post, chapter H. 

{t) See ante page 36. 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 39 

Wadworth, a parish, near Doncaster. County of York (West Riding). 
Wadshaw, a place, on Haworth Moor, Coiinty of York. 
Waddon Hall, a residence, parish of Waltham, County of Kent. 
Wade's Hall («'), a residence, parish of Ugley, County of Essex. 
Wade's Green (.1), parish of Minshull, County of Chester. 
Wadfast, a place, near Week St. Mary, County of, Devon. 
Wadland, a place, parish of Ashbury, County of Devon. 
Waddish, a place. County of Dorset. 
Wadford, a place. County of Somerset. 
Wadshani Dean, a place. County of York. 
Wadshelf (j), a place. County of Derby. 
Wadshay, a place. County of Devon. 

America has been, from its greater area, if anything, more pro- 
lific in Wade place-names. The following appear in Gazetteers 
and directories of recent date : — 

Wade, St. Clair Countv, Alabama. 

Wade Cross Roads. Cherokee County, Alabama. Mail, Forney, 

Wade Gap, Jefferson County, Alabama. Mail, Hillman. 

Wades, Cross County, Arkansas. 

Wade Spur, Cross County, Arkansas. Mail, Vanndale. 

Wade, Kern County, California. Mail, Kern. 

Wade, Modoc County, California. Mail, Lookout. 

Wade Rock, Butte Cotmty, California. Mail, Oroville. 

Wade's Meadow, Tuolumne County, California. Mail, Big Oak Flat 

Wadawunck, New London County, Connecticut. Mail, Stonington. 

(«) Wadesmill stands on the ancient Roman road, the Erming Street 
(soldier's road), and may be derived from the Latin v ad urn, strictly a 
ford or shallow place, and possibly as derived from %jadere, to go, 
meaning a road or way. In a letter (preserved in the British Museum) 
under date Standon, August 22, 1465, Alderman Field, of London, 
speaks of this hamlet as " Walysmyll;" but it is memorable that upon 
a small brass in the nearby church of Standon, dated Sept. 15, 1557, 
and erected to Guy Wade, a reference to the name is made in the open- 
ing words : — 

Thy lymes (limbs), O Wade, yt lately death hath slaine 
Lender this stone entered here remaine, etc. 

(The will of Guv Wade, Esquire, of London and Standon, Herts, is 
proved in Vol. 40, Register Wrastley, of the Prerogative Court of the 
Archbishop of Canterljury.) A Rev. John Wade was Vicar of Standon 
from October 21, 1670, to 1719, and a Rev. William Wade hlled the 
same office from his predecessor's death in 17 19 imtil his own decease 
in 1728. 

(7/) Called Wadehurst in a deed dated 13 Elizabeth (i. e., A. D. 1571). 

(7f) This place is said by the Vicar to be a corruption of Ward's. 
Thomas Buck lived there in 1607. 

(.v) This locality was probably named after the Wade family long- 
inhabiting Church Minshull. See chapter H, post. 

{y) Possibly identical with the Wadescel of Domesday Book. 



40 The Wade Genealogy. 

Wade, Alachua Count}-, Florida. 

Wade, Emanuel County, Georgia, near Swansboro. 

Wade's Park, Brooks Count}', Georgia, near Quitman. 

Wade's Store, Brooks County, Georgia. Mail, Okapilco. 

Wade, Jasper County, Illinois. Mail, Newton. 

Wadena (z), Benton County, Indiana. 

Wadesville, Posey County, Indiana. 

Wade, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. 

Wadena (z), Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Mail, Kosoma. 

Wadeville, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory'. Mail, Mountain Fork, 

Ark. 
Wadena (z), Fayette County, Iowa. 

Wade, Leavenworth County, Kansas. Mail, Fort Leavenworth. 
Wade, Miami County, Kansas. 
Wadesboro, Calloway County, Kentucky. 
Wade's Mill, Claik County, Kentucky. S78 inhabitants. 
Wadesboro, Tangipahoa County, Louisiana. ]Mail, Pouchatoula. 
Wade Plantation", Aroostook County, Maine. Mail, Washburn. 
Wade, Clare County, Michigan. ^Iail, Clare. 
Wades, Wexford County, Michigan. 
AVadena (.::), Wadena County, Minnesota. 

Wadena Junction (z), Ottertail County, Minnesota. Mail, AYadena. 
Wade, Jackson County, Mississippi, near Three Rivers. 
AVade Lawn, Issaquena County, Mississippi. 
AVade, McDonald County, Missouri. Mail, Donahue. 
AVadesburg, Cass County, Missouri. Mail, Creighton. 
AA^ades, Lewis and Clarke County, Montana. 

AVade' s Spur, Lewis and Clarke County, Montana. Alail, Helena. 
AVade {a), Cumberland County, North Carolina. 
Wade, Harnett County, North Carolina. Mail, Dunn. 
AVadesboro ((^), Anson'County North Carolina (13). 
AVade' s Mill, Cumberland Co', ity. North Carolina. 
AA^ade's Siding, Moore County, North Carolina. 
AA'ades Point,' Beaufort County, North Carolina. Mail Bath. 
AA'adeville, (c) Montgomery County, North Carolina. 
AVade, (c/) AVashington County, Ohio. 

(z) AVadena, be it said, once in early days, in Illinois, is an Ameri- 
can-Indian word, signifving, "beautiful maiden." The name has 
appositely been bestowe'd by Mr. J. H. AVade, Jr., of Cleveland, upon 
his handsome steam yacht. 'This particular village is the county seat 
of AVadena countv, northwest-central Minnesota, 162 miles west of 
Duluth, on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads. It is 
in a farming and lumbering region. It has three weekly newspapers. 
Population 1895, 1,252. 

(a) AVade, N. C, was named after N. G. AA^ade about 1SS6. He was 
born in the village, became a prominent railroad man, and, later, 
resided at Bingham, S. C. 

(/;) So named from a noted resident. See post, chapter V.^ As to 
the AVadesboro area of Triassic rocks, see Dana's Manual of Geology, 
4th Edit. , p. 74. AVadesboro is the capital of Anson County, southern 
North Carolina, 52 miles E. S. E. of Charlotte, and on the Seaboard 
Air Line and Cheraw and Salsbury railroads. It has a national bank, 
two weekly newspapers, Anson Institute, and is an agricultural dis- 
trict.. Population 1890, 1,198. i 



Origin of the Name of Wade. 41 

Wade Park (e) Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Mail East Cleveland. 
Wades, (/) Hamilton County, Ohio. Mail Cincinnati. 
Wade, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, near Pottsville. 
Wade's CoUierv, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. 
Wade Siding, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mail Washington. 
Wade Siding, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mail St. Clair. 
Wade, Rutherford County, Tennessee. Mail Florence. 
Wades, Lake County, Tennessee. 

Wades Cave, Anderson County, Tennessee. Mail Hinds Creek. 
AVades Landing, Obion County, Tennessee. Mail Clayton. 
Wades Store, Anderson County, Tennessee. Mail Hinds Creek. 
Wadeville, Hickman County, Tennessee. 
Wade, Guadalupe County, Texas, 13 miles N. E. of Seguin. 
•Wades, Nueces County, Texas. Mail Casa Blanca. 
Wade's Chapel, Parker County, Texas. Jlail Hiner. 
Wadeville, Navarro County, Texas. Mail Kerens. 
AVades P. O. (^) Bedford County, Virginia. 

Wade School House, Highland County, Virginia. Mail Mill Gap. 
Wades Store (//) Bedford County, Virginia. Mail Wades. 
Wadesville, (/) Clarke County, Virginia. 
Waidsboro, (_/') Franklin County, Virginia. 
Wade, (/t) Tucker County, Wes't A'irginia. 
Wadestown, (/) Monongalia Count v. West Virginia. 
Wadesville, Wood County, West A'irginia. Mail Lubeck (? Tyner) 
Wades Landing, (;//) Frazer River, British Columbia. 
Wade's Creek, (n) Alaska. 

(c) Wadeville N. C. was named after W. T. Wade and C. C. Wade 
who kept a store here in 1S71. Their grandfather was a brother of Col. 
Thos. Wade, a Revolutionary patriot of N. C. 

(d) Named after U. S. Senator Benjam«H Franklin Wade, as to whom 
see Chapter III pos/. 

(e) Named after its donor Jeptha Homer Wade of Cleveland. See 
Chapter IV />os/. 

(f) Probably named after David Wade the pioneer settler from New 
Jersey. See Chapter IV pos/. 

(0-) (//) Wades P. O. Bedford Co. Va. and Wades Store were so named 
after Alexander Wade who kept this post office about 1839. 

(z) Wadesville, Va. , was named after James, Daniel and Robert M. 
Wade, sons of Daniel Wade of Frederic County Va. They kept a 
store here about 1S33. 

(/) Waidsboro, Va. was known to the Post office prior to 1S60 as Story 
or Starry Creek, then called Waid's Store, and now Waidsboro after 
Edmund Waid, a merchant and tobacco manufacturer, about 1860-70. 

(/&) Wade, West Virginia was established as a post office in 1S96. 
There are only two houses there. The present postmaster knows no 
local reason for the name. 

(/) Wadestown, W. Va. was once called West Warren, but the post 
office was termed Wadestown about 1S42 when the land was laid out 
for a town by Thomas Wade its owner. He was father of Alexander 
L. Wade (see post Chapter V.) 



42 The Wade Genealogy. 

A final word as to the Welsh and Irish families of the name. 
One thing is certain and that is that the name Wad^ is essentially 
of Teutonic or Scandinavian origin. It is neither Erse nor Celtic 
and therefore is not autochthonal in the principality of Wales or 
the kingdom of Ireland. 

That Wades invaded the principality of Wales with the early 
English kings is as certain as the fact that one of the family was 
at the battle of Flodden Field. That they early settled there 
appears from numerous early records. 

As to Ireland, the records disclose a Captain Wade there under < 
Cromwell and Samuel Wade Sr. and Samuel Wade Jr. as officers 
of the army in 1649. Sir William Waad, (died 1623), was 
Superintendent of the soldiery in Ireland and Bryan Wade, Henry 
Wade, Samuel Wade and Major William Wade are recorded as 
recipients of extensive grants of Irish lands in Cork, Kerry, 
Meath, Tipperary, Limerick, Waterford and Kings Counties at an 
early date. In 1702 Richard Wade, Charles Wade, and John 
Wade are mentioned as land owners. 

The alleged Scythian origin of the Saxons may explain the 
frequent use of a form of the name as a place name such as Wady 
Haifa, Wadai, Wadan, and Wadelai in Africa. The Saxon 
occupancy accounts for Waadt (the German name for the Canton 
Vaud in Switzerland); Wadensmil in Canton Zurich, and 
Wadersloh in Westphalia. Wadasima is a port in Japan, Wadden 
in Friesland (Netherlands) in an old map in the British Museum is 
called Vada vtilgo Wadden; Wadet Thana is a district in Bombay 
Presidency, India. Wadi Arabah is in Palestine and Waidhofen in 
Austria. 

So much, therefore, for the origin and etymology of our sur- 
name. Well indeed can it be said that our ancestors have made 
for us "a local habitation and a name." 

(;«) Wade's Landing was named after Francis Wade of Montreal,, 
who settled here about i860, married an Indian woman, died 1S94 and 
is buried at the head of Lake Douglass. 

(«) In the Yukon District, and the scene of a stampede of miners in 
search of gold, April 27, 1899. So named in honor of Frederick Coates 
Wade, a Canadian barrister, who was Crown Prosecutor in British 
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CHAPTER II. 

THE ANTIQUITY OF THE FAMILY OF WADE ENGLISH PEDIGREES 

AND SOME FAMOUS WADES. 



To trace the Wade ancestral tree 
To the very root of the pedigree, 
Were a task as rash as ridiculous, 
Through antediluvian mists as thick 
As a London fog such a line to pick, 
Were enough, in trutli to puzzle Old Nick, 
Not to name Sir Harris Nicholas, (o) 

It wouldn't exhaust all the art heralds shewed in 
Their old Visitations, to trace Wade to Woden, 
But waiving all such digressions. 
Suffice it, according to family lore, 
A patriarch Wade there lived of yore. 
Who was famed for his great possessions. 

Tradition said he feathered his nest 
Through an Agricultural Interest, 
In the Golden Age of Farming ; 
When golden eggs were laid by the geese 
And Colchian sheep wore a golden fleece 
And golden pippins — the sterhng kind, 
Of Hesperus — now so rare to find — • 
Made llorticulture quite charming ! ' 

(With apologies to the shade of Thomas Hood.) 

" In the afternoon of time 
A strenuous family dusted from its hands 
The sand of granite, and beholding far 
Along the sounding coast its pyramids 
And tall memorials catch the dying sun, 
Smiled well content, and to this childish task 
Around the fire addressed its evening hours." 

R. L. Stevenson — Skej-ryvore. 

The antiquity of the Wade Family has been, it would seem, 
sufficiently demonstrated in the preceding chapter. Instances of 
the name occurring in Enghsli records are numerous even before 
the Norman Conquest of 1066. From that date record after 

{o). Sir Nicholas Harris Nicholas, (i 799-1 S.48), a famous genealogist 
and antiquary. 

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44 The Wade Genealogy. 

record reveals the deeds and honors, and occasionally, the slip 
from grace, of the early Wades. 

Perhaps one of the earliest instances of the name is to be found 
in The Codex Diplomaticus Anglo-Saxonica (Kemble), published by 
the Historical Society of England, wherein, folio 493, we find the 
name "Wade hwaede" as Viscount or sheriff of the county of War- 
wick, at a very early date. An antiquary renders " hwaede " as 
" the gentle, " a misnomer surely for a sheriff, in the days when 
death was the punishment for nearly every crime, and the sheriff 
the sworn officer to execute the barbarities of a Draconian code. 
There is an early and notable instance of a kindred name. Ralph 
Wader was Earl of Norfolk, and flourished about 1070. He was the 
son of Ralph the Staller. William of Malmesbury says he was a 
Breton, probably from the fact that his wife was a native of Brit- 
tany and heiress of the castles of Wader and Montfort in that 
country. Ralph is a strange name for a Saxon but his brother was 
named God wine. Both were almost undoubtedly of English birth. 
Ralph rebelled against William the Conqueror, turned Crusader 
and died on the road to Jerusalem before July, 1098. (See Dic- 
iionary 0/ National Biography, \o\. 23. p. 314). That one of the 
early Wades was fortunate in placing his trust in princes, appears 
from the publications of The Record Society, wherein we find that 
John Wade was chaplain to Henry I., King of England, (i 100- 
1135). Less happy was the lot of Godwin Wade, who in the Pipe 
Rolls of the twelfth year of the reign of King Henry H. (1166) is 
recorded as a fugitive from justice. In the rolls of this period 
also occur the names of Wilhelmus, Juliana, Henricus, and Galfrid- 
us Wade. Madox in his folio Antiquities of the Exchequer (1711), 
page 386, refers to a Richard Wade as early as the seventh year 
of the reign of King Richard I. (1196), and in the feet of Fines 
for the county of Norfolk for the second year of King John, (1200)^ 
we find the suit of William de Eboraco (York) and Matilda his 
wife, against William, son of Anketill and Thieda his wife, and 
William Wade and Alveva his wife. The suit related to lands in 
Lynn in the county of Norfolk, and the extract is of considerable 
interest when it is remembered that the Massachusetts Wades, 
came from Denver, not far from Lynn. (See Chapter IH post). 

As the years roll on, the records of England bear more names 



Famous English Wades. 



45 



of Wade. An early deed of the thirteenth century discloses the 
fact that Cecilia Wade, late the wife of William Wade, of Welyn- 
tone, (Wellington) conveyed to Alan Wade and Alice his wife, cer- 
tain land in the common field of Welyntone, part adjoining the 
path leading from Overwardyne towards le Lydegate and part in 
Bereyr, in the county of Hereford. One Alfredus Wade is entered 
on the records of the feet of Fines in 1204, and a Henry de la 
Wade in 1225. John Wade was a bailiff of London in 1230 and 
Nicholaus Wade conveys land in 1239. In 1241 Henry de la 
Wade sued William Amyot for two and a half virgates of land in 
Norton in the county of Oxford, as his right in the estate of which 
Henry de la Wade, his father died seized in the time of King John, 
(i. e. 1 199-12 16). The inquisitions post mortem of 36 Henry HI. 
(1252) disclose the death of one Johannes Wade, possessed of 
lands at Haveringe and Renham (? Raynham) in the county of 
Essex. Haveringe, or more correctly, Havering-atte-Bower was a 
favorite suburban residence of Edward the Confessor, King of 
England, and the ruins of his castle there are still visible. 

English records, under date of 51 Henry IH. (1267), refer to 
one Magistcr Henricus Wade as holding lands direct of the king, 
and the title Magister (Sir) is indicative of considerable social 
prominence in those early days. We find that his wife was the 
daughter of Wilhelmus le Vein, and had been, before her mar- 
riage to Henricus Wade, the wife and widow of Simon Jurdan. 
In this same year an Inquisition post mortem records the death 
of Henry Wade, holding lands in Cocham (Cosham) and Braye, 
in the county of Berkshire. This Bray, it may be interesting to 
remark, is the village famous for its time-serving Vicar. 

One John de la Wade was living and in litigation in 1272 (the 
first year of the reign of Edward I.,) and one Henry Wade was, 
according to Madox's Afiiiquitics of the Exchequer (p. 591), the com- 
mittee of the manor of Selveston. in this same year, but before the 
death of Henry HI. In 1280, John Wade junior, of Wytton in 
Norfolk, was defendant to a plea concerning lands in that county, 
while Blount's Tenures is the authority for the statement that in 
this year, (Pleas of the Crown, 8 Edw. I., roll 26, back), one 
Rowland de Arley and one Henry Wade held the moiety of a cer- 
tain serjeanty in Cosham, in the county of Southampton, by find- 



46 The Wade Genealogy. 

ing a certain footman to keep the Castle of Porchester, in time of 
war, for forty days, at their own proper costs. This was the time 
of miUtary tenures, when feudalism waxed and the race of robber 
barons flourished. The tenvires and services varied, as in 1285 
we find from Blount and the Pleas of the Crown that " Henry 
de la Wade held ten pounds of land in Staunton, in the county of 
Oxford, by the serjeanty of carrying a gerfalcon every year before 
our lord the king, whenever he shall please to hunt with such 
falcon, at the cost of the said lord the king." 

Widespread and numerous indeed was this ancient and lusty 
family, as from the De Banco roll 64, of 14 Edward I. (1286), we 
find that Robert Wade and Isabel, his wife, were defendants to a 
plea relating to lands in the count}^ of York. As early as this 
same year, one John Wade attained a high dignity as sheriff of 
London, and in the following year an inquisition post mortem 
reveals the death of Henry de la Wade, holding lands in Bletches- 
don and Staunton, in the county of Oxford. This was probably 
the man who had to find the gerfalcon for the king's hawking 
parties, and a word or two as to the nature and necessity for 
these inquisitions post mortem may here be in order. 

From the time of the Norman Conquest of 1066 down to the 
date in the reign of Charles H., when feudal tenures were abol- 
ished, all land in England, with few and unimportant exceptions, 
was held by the tenure of knight service, military in all its inci- 
dents. Tluis the Conquerer granted a whole county to one of his 
barons, on condition that he found so many horse and foot sol- 
diers, in case of war or on demand. The baron subinfeudated or 
divided the land among his own retainers on like conditions. 
Then when a tenant died it became of interest and necessity to 
the lord to enquire who was the heir and from whom the militaiy 
services were due. For this purpose an inquisition post mortem 
was held. This particular inquisition found " that Johannes de 
la Wade, son and heir of the said Henry de la Wade, was his 
next heir, and was of full age and ability to render the said 
service." 1 

There is an early will preserved in the Court of the Hustings in 
the city of London, and dated about 1297, which shows that one 
of the Wade family was a landowner in London at this date. By 



^ Famous English Wades. 47 

liis will, John de Cudington devised to his son-in-law Robert de 
Piphearst and Juliana, his wife, a tenement at Garlickhithe (/>) 
subject to an annual rent charge of four shillings (about one dollar) 
in favor of John Wade, his heirs and assigns. 

But Fortune, the fickle jade, changed for the Wades, as in 1298 
one John de la \\'ade, who had been sheriff of Lincolnshire, fell upon 
evil days and into the clutches of the law of which he had been the 
executive officer. Madox's Exchequer Antiquities records his re- 
moval from the Marshalsea prison to the Fleet prison, but tells us 
neither of his offence nor his fate. He may have been a primeval 
" boodler," but far more probably had failed to arrest some one 
who had offended the king. 

An inquisition ad qitud Jamniim of 31 Edward I. (1303), tells us 
of John, son of Henry \\'ade, and an inquisition post mortem of 
the same year discloses the death of a Johannes Wade possessed 
of land at Cosham, near Wjaiierynge, in the county of Southampton, 
and Claydon in the count)- of Buckingham. A will of John Wade, 
preserved in the Court of the Hustings of the City of London and 
of the date of 1307, devises to the testator's brother Adam Wade, 
a tenement in the parish of St. James, Garlickhithe (/<), in the city 
of London ; to Alice, his sister, a brewhouse in the parish of St. 
Michael le Queenhithe for life, with remainder to pious uses ; and 
mentions Cecilia Wade, the testator's deceased sister and her 
daughter Matilda. 

Royal favor seems to have smiled on one Adam Wade as early 
as 1307, as we find him providing the urn for the coronation of 
King Edward I L in that year. In 1309, an inquisition post mor- 
tem finds the death of one John Wade, possessed of estates in Ox- 
fordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire, leaving his brother, 
Henry Wade, of the age of 30 years and more, as his heir. 

A curious will of Adam Wade of London, dated about 13 10, and 
preserved in the Court of the Hustings of the City of London, is 
probably that of the worthy city tradesman who assisted at Ed- 
ward n.'s coronation. It devises rents and stores called " Helle " 
in Fleet Street and others in Holbornestreete and at le Queenhithe, 
with two quarries in the vill of Hensley upon trust for sale, makes 

( p). The hithes were the old wharves or docks on the banks of the 
Thames, in the Citv of London. 



48 The Wade Genealogy. 

bequests in favor of Christiana his wife and mentions Adam de 
Bandone, testator's nephew ; his sister Alice ; and leaves one mark 
for the work on London Bridge. 

It was an early Wade who went to the wars with the Scots, as 
the Parliamentary writs of 4 Edward II. return a certain Richard 
Wade as one of the servientes performing military' service due 
from the Bishop of Worcester, and as such, present at a muster 
and array at Tweedmouth on September 18, 131 1. The inquisi- 
tions post mortem of the following year disclose Juliana, the wife 
of John Wade, and, in right of her dower, possessing in Claydon, 
Buckinghamshire, a messuage and twent}'-five acres of land. 
Thomas Wade is returned in the Parliamentary writs of 6 Edward 
II. (13 13) as manucaptor {(]) of Hugo le Blund, knight of the shire 
(member of Parliament), returned for Berkshire, and in 13 16 
(g Edw. II.) one Richard Wade suffered an escheatment of his 
lands in Fresselay, Calverlay and Fairley in the county of York. 
As to Calverlay, attention is drawn to the pedigree of Wade of 
King Cross, printed later, this Richard being possibly a remote 
ancestor of this family, and being also, and as probably, the man 
who is recorded on the Parliamentary' writs for this year as the 
lord of the township of Fairley in the same county of York. 

A certain Roger Wade is returned in 1322 as one of the manu- 
captors of Petrus Dewerey, knight of the shire returned for South- 
ampton, and the Boroughbridge Roll of Arms gives us the name of 
Sire Robert de Wadeville as fighting at the battle of Borough- 
bridge on March 16, 1322. He bore for arms: Argent, three 
chevrons, between a bordure. sable, and thus early we get the first 
instance of coat armor appertaining to the Wades. 

In 1325 one Adam Wade was defendant to a plea of trespass, 
in the county of Lancaster (Coram Rege Rolls, Michaelmas, 18 
Edw. IL), and in the following year, 1326, a certain Thomas 
Wade, of Kenton and Soham, this latter place in Cambridgeshire 
attended the muster and array of the Hundred of Loos in the 
county of Suffolk, next after the feast of St. George (24 April, 19 
Edward IL). 

Of high antiquity was the name of Wade in the west of Eng- 

{q). Manucaptor i.e. mainprize, bail, or surety for another. 



Famous English Wades. 



49 



land — those outworks wild of mystic Camelot where Arthur and 
his knights held sway. Wadelus held Wadefaste in the parish of 
Whitstone, north Cornwall in the time of Edward the Confessor and 
prior to the Norman invasion or the Doomsday survey. Dunken's 
Ciirnish Brasses is authority for the statement that Wadebridge in 
that county was anciently called Wade's Bridge, while William of 
Worcester in his Itinerary (written about 1350) supplies the rea- 
son for this place name in stating that " Wadebridge, a bridge of 




Sire Robert de Wadeville, 1322. 

Argent, 3 Chevrons between a bordure, sable. Battle of IBorough 
bridge, Mch. 16, 1322. (From the Boroughbridge Roll of Arms). 

seventeen arches was situate near the manor house of Wade." 
A family tradition of the Cornish Wades asserts a lineal descent 
from the patriarch Job (!), and however true or fictitious this may be 
the Subsidy Rolls for the County record a William Wade as early 
as 1327 in the parish of Saint Advent, Deanery of Trigg Minor, 
Cornwall. 

A certain Thomas Wade, of Fyffelde in the county of Northamp- 
ton, appears from quo warranto proceedings in 1330, (3 Edw. III.) 



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The Wade Genealogy. 



to have been seized of a messuage and one acre of land there, in 
the right of his wife, Agatha, daughter of Elena Hobbs of Fyffelde, 
and his son Richard Wade, sued Emma, the daughter of Philip 
Alleyn de Fyffelde, to recover possession of this property. 

The records of 1331 disclose Alicia Wade, Robert Wade, and 
Henr}^ Wade as plaintiffs in certain quo ivarran/o proceedings at 
the Derby Assize of that year (4 Edw. Ill) and the will of Emma, 
wife of William Payntot, of Esingwald (Easingwold, Yorkshire), 
dated in 1346, contains a bequest of sixpence to Walter Wade. 

We find John W'ade, a priest, presented by Lord Robert de Tif- 
ford, of Hacunby in the county of Lincoln, to the church of Ha- 
cunby in 1347, (Chancery Files, 329). In 1349, a plaintiff in a 
suit to recover lands at Weldon, in the county of Oxford, pro- 
pounded a pedigree commencing with one Henry de la Wade as 
the common ancestor, living in the time of Henry HI. (i.e. 12 16- 
1272). A William Wade of Hermodesworth and Alice his wife, 
were parties to a fine of lands at Colham in the county of Middle- 
sex in 135 1, in November 1352; one Robert Wade of Sempyngham 
in the county of Lincoln, was presented to the vicarage of Norton 
Disney in the same county, by the Master of the Temple, and in 
24 and 25 Edward III. (135 1-2) William Wade was one of the de- 
fendants in a fine levied as to lands at Adderley in Shropshire. 

There were other Wades of the tonsure and black robe in these 
days, as the inquisitions post mortem tell us of a Johannes Wade, 
a chaplain or chantry priest, in the county of Rutland in 31 Ed- 
ward HI. (1358), and the same class of records reveal a William 
Wade in 1365 as possessing the manor of Glarton in Lincolnshire, 
of which in 1377, Margareta, his wife, suffered an escheatment. 

One John Wade, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is 
mentioned in the rolls of 32 Edw. HI. (1359), and another of the 
same name was basking in the favor of the king in 137 i, as the Ex- 
chequer Roll shows him as receiving a pension of two pence daily, 
no inconsiderable sum in those days. Nor was he alone of the king's 
household, as a Robert Wade appears on the same roll as the 
king's carter and one Gilbert Wade as the king's valet. 

We turn again to the wills preserved in the Court of the Hust- 
ings of the city of London, to find in the will of Henr^^ Hale, a 
fishmonger, dated in 1375, that he mentions his apprentice, John 



Famous English Wades. 51 

Wade, while the will of John Blakenyr, another and contemporary 
fishmonger, bequeaths to John Wade, fishmonger, "my best sword 
and bokeler (buckler) covered with plates of silver." 

One John Wade was clerk to John Clervaus, Archdeacon of 
Suffolk, whose will is dated in 1383, and an ancient deed pre- 
served in the English Public Record Office, shows that on May 
8, 1386 (9 Richard II.), Thomas Catwy and Joan, his wife, demised 
or leased to John Wade of Harev.-ell " their manor of Paynelis- 
court in Barewoodscourt in the county of Berkshire, except the 
high chambers of the said manor, which were reserved for the 
lord and lady of the manor when they stayed there, and except 
the granary." 

In 1393, (16 Richard II), an inquisition post mortem records 
that a certain Johannes Wade and others, held lands in London 




John Wade, Sheriff of London. 

for the Prior and Convent of Canterbur}- in Kent. An early Lin- 
coln will of Richard de Tretton, proved at Lincoln, December 30, 
1395, mentions a William Wade. 

Philip de Waude was presented to the vicarage of Edmonton in 
Middlesex in 1397, according to Lyson's Eitvirons of London, III., 
267, and Stow's Survey of London is authority for the fact that in 
1398 (22 Richard IL), one John Wade, fishmonger, was one of the 
sheriffs of London with John Warnar. 

From The A rms of the Sheriffs and Mayors of London, we find 
that this early city official bore for his coat of arms, a saltire be- 
tween four_]escallops, or. It is noteworthy how frequently the sal- 
tire and escallops appear in the Wade coat of arms. (With the 
prefatory remark that no heraldic distinctions accord with our 



52 



The Wade Genealogy. 



American and republican institutions, we saying, as Kipling's True 

Thomas said in his Last Rhymes : 

" And what should I make wi' blazon and belt, 
Wi' keep and tail and seizin and fee, 
And what should I do wi' page and squire 
That am a king in my own countrie ? 

Those interested in the subject may with advantage peruse the 
article on Heraldr}^- in the Encyclopiedia Britannica with some 
modern works, such as those by Boutell and Cussans. An indis- 
putable descent from an armigerous family, must, in addition, be 
strictly that of an eldest son in every generation, in order to entitle 
the descendant to bear the family arms without a difference or 
mark of cadency. The coats of arms in this book have been care- 
fully and exactly prepared by an able herald, who will be prepared 
to furnish hand-colored copies of any heraldic illustrations on 
moderate terms.) 

Lyson in his Environs of London, II, 23, refers under the manor 
of Haliwick, Friarn Barnet, to the fact that this manor in the lat- 
ter part of the reign of Edward III. was the property of William 
Olneye, citizen of London. His wife Isabell afterward married 
John Wade, who died seized of it, 3 Hen. IV. (1402). Her son, 
John Olneye, was her heir. The will of John Wade, of Bristol, in 
the county of Somerset, dated in 1404, is in the Lambeth Registry 
(223 Register Arundell, p. 1.). 

Richard Wade, armiger, is mentioned in a grant of land near 
Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, under date March 17, 7 Hen. 
IV. (1406). The Exchequer Rolls tell of the good fortune of 
one Robert Wade in 5 Henry V. (i. e. 141 8), he being recorded 
as having married Coldship, called the Rose of Cooshithe, in 
London. One John Wade was the executor of the will of Ger- 
ard Usflete, knight, of Yorkshire, which will was proved Septem- 
ber 13, 1420, and an account of an arbitration of May 20, 1422, 
preserved in the Public Record Office, mentions one William 
Wade as a warden of the church of St. Margaret, Moysy (Moul- 
esey ?), in Middlesex. 

It was possibly an early ancestor of the New Jersey Wades 
(see po^t chapter IV.), one William Wade, chaplain, who on Sep- 
tember 28, 1430, was a party to a bond of David Lewis, rector of 



Famous English Wades. 53 

St. Pagan's in Wales, and the fact is interesting in relation to the 
family tradition of that branch of the Wades that their ancestors 
came from the Principality of Wales. If this be St. Fagan's in 
Glamorganshire, a reference to the map will shew its proximity 
to Tintagel and Bodmin, where an old family of Wades were set- 
tled. 

An early will of Thomas Barree, rector of Ffylyngham, in the 
county of Lincoln, proved at Lincoln October 5, 1431. bears the 
name of an Edward \\'ade. as one of the attesting witnesses and 
the feet of Fines for the county of Cornwall for iS Henry VL 
(1440), mention John Wade and Johanna, his wife, as interested in 
lands at Camelford and Tregewe in that county. (See hereon 
post^. 

We find from the will of Thomas Beek or Beck, once a Bishop 
of Lincoln, which will was dated Februar}- 11, 1446, that a William 
Wade received a legacy of one hundred shillings in it. The Coram 
Rege Roll of 1448, refers to Walter Wade and his wife, Margena, 
and their daughter, Johanna, who became the wife of Nicholas 
Trenesh. They seem to have resided near Liskeard in the county 
of Cornwall. 

Letters of Administration to the estate of Robert ^^'ade of Al- 
vely in the diocese of London, one of the yeomen of the crown, 
dated June 24, 1462, are preserved in the Bishop's Registry at 
Lambeth (49 a. Bourgchier). 

A John Wade, clerk (i. e. minister of the gospel), is mentioned 
in an early deed preserved in the Public Record Office, dated 
March 20, 1483, referring to lands in ihe county of Kent, while the 
Court of the Hustings of the City of London contains the will of 
one John Cowper, dated February 14, 1485, devising his tenement 
in the parish of Estchepe (Eastcheap) St. Leonard's, in London to 
William Wade, Master of the College of St. Gregor)- at Sudbuiy, 
in the county of Suffolk, and the brethren of this same monastery. 

One Lawrence \\'ade, who was professed as a Benedictine monk 
of Canterbur}% England, in 1467, translated into English rhyme in 
1497, the life of Thomas a Becket, from the original by Herbert 
Bosham, written in Latin about 1180. 

To the stranger in blood this enumeration of the early Wades 
and their deeds may possibly be about as interesting as a recital of 



54 The Wade Genealogy. 

the Homeric navy list, but to the bearers of the name it is sub- 
mitted that no other method of treatment was possible in regard to 
the earlier, and necessarily fragmentary, instances from the Eng- 
lish records. To attempt to connect these disjecfa meynbra would 
require the assurance of that prince of pedigree-forgers, the late 
Major-General Plantagenet Harrison, once claimant to the throne 
of England on a pedigree of his own manufacture ! On the other 
hand, to have omitted these deeds and honors of the early Wades 
would have been the representation of Hamlet with the melancholy 
Dane left out of the cast. These results, therefore, of some 
twenty years searching of records or favors from transatlantic 
correspondence are inserted thus. To have omitted them would 
have been to have left unwritten one of the most interesting parts 
of the book, from the genealogist's point of view. 

It seems that Wade was an early protot\'pe of P. D. Armour, 
engaged in supplying the British army with food, for in Dasent's 
Acts of the Privy Council, under date of February 1548, we find 
that Roger Wade was ordered to be paid ^200 for providing but- 
ter, cheese and bacon for the North. 

Another member of the family was less fortunate, for the same 
work informs us under date of August 20, 1549, that £(:> was paid 
for bringing Richard Wade out of Suffolk (as a prisoner for a 
hearing before the Privy Council). His luck held good, for on 
August 22nd, £\ was paid to him as "sent hyther out of Suffolk 
and accused as a styrrer of sedecion whereof he hath cleared him- 
self." 

Under date of Jan. 18, 155 1, Dasent's Ads of the Privy Council 
mentions a letter ordered to be written to Sir Richard Waide, one 
of the Justices of Berkeshire, as to woodcutting in the woods, ap- 
pertaining to the Busshopprike of Winchester, in County of Berk- 
shire. 

The will of Elizabeth Onley, dated June 28, 1554, and proved 
in the Prerogative court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, on 
August II, 1556, (Ketchyn, H.) mentions her late husband Robert 
Wade, and her son-in-law, Guye Wade. One John Hanson, of 
Woodhouse, in the County of York, (buried at Elland, aged 82, 
in 1559, and so born in 1477,) married secondly, Margaret, the 
daughter of Robert Wade. His will dated June 11, and proved 



Famous English Wades. 55 

August 29, 1559, mentions Robert Wade, deceased, his late broth- 
er-in-law. 

Lyson's, in his Enviroyi^ of London, IV. 583, dealing with the 
parish of Cheam, Middlesex, says that a manor there was in the 
tenure of Humphrey Wade, temp,, Edw. VI., to whom it had been 
assigned by Thomas Fromonds. 

Proceeding, therefore, with the numerous instances of early 
Wades, we find from the Herald's Visitation of the count}^ of 
Norfolk, that one Margaret, the daughter of John Bacon, of 
Harleston, (whose will was dated October 22, 1511,) married a 
John Wade, while the De Banco Common Roll of Hilary Term, 6 
Henry VIII. (15 15) mentions Margaret, Alicia, Anna, and Eliz- 
abeth Coke, daughters and co-heiresses of one John Coke, of 
Esthaddon, in the county of Northampton, the first three of whom 
married John, William, and Thomas Wade, respectively. 

The Subsidy Roll for the county of Norfolk, of 15 Henry VIII. 
(1523,) contains the name of Thomas Wade, of East Rudham, as 
one of those then possessing over ^^40, ii. e. $200,) in lands or 
goods. Glover's Visitation of the county of Warwick, notes the 
marriage of Robert Wade to Anne, daughter of Christopher Lister, 
about 1530, and the feet of Fines for the county of Middlesex of 
2)2, Henry VIII. (1542) refer to one Guy Wade as possessing a fish- 
ery at Stratford-atte-Bowe. 

One William Wade was one of the attesting witnesses to the will 
of Thomas Bakon, of Helmyngham, in the county of Suffolk, the 
will being proved at Bury St. Edmund's, February 27, 1535. 

The year 1536 was memorable for the voyage of the ships JSIin- 
ion and Trim'fy to the shores of Newfoundland. It was one of the 
earliest, if not the earliest, of the purely English voyages of dis- 
covery to the New World. The Minion bore among its passengers, 
Armigel Waad, whose exploits on this voyage are more fully dealt 
with later, and in this chapter. 

The Herald's Visitation of Leicestershire in 16 19, found that 
one Thomas Gregory, of Eiton, in the county of Nottingham, had 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Wade, merchant and 
Mayor of Coventry, in the county of Warwick, who was living 2^ 
Henry VIII., (1546) and died 16 Elizabeth, (1573.) 

The Calendar of Pleadings of the Duchy of Lancaster discloses 



56 The Wade Genealogy. 

the fact that from 1561 to 1565, Christopher Wade, Ehzabeth 
Wade, and others were in htigation as regards land of the manor 
of Coggeshall in the county of Essex, of which one Robert Wade 
had died seized, and a Herald's visitation of the count}' of Lincoln 
relates the marriage of Randolph Wade of Windsor in Berkshire 
to Fayth, the daughter of Charles Yerburgh of Yerburgh (Yar- 
borough, in Lincolnshire), about the year 1562. The Visitation 
of Yorkshire for 1563-4 mentions Robert Wade as the husband of 
Kateren, daughter of John Vavasour. 

The Herald's Visitation of the county of Oxford of 1566-7 notes 
the marriage of Alice, daughter of John Wade of Hokenorton to 
Walter Calcote of Williscote, and the will of Thomas Wade of 
Bildeston in the county of Suffolk is proved in the court of the 
Commissary of Bury St. Edmund's, Archdeacon of Sudbury, on 
September 18, 1570. It is dated January 23, 13 Elizabeth, (1569) 
and refers to his wife, Marger}-, and his brothers, John and 
William Wade. One John Wade of Framesden is a witness to the 
will. 

In the church of Bildeston in Suffolk is a monumental brass to 
William Wade, one of the High Constables of the Hundred, who 
died Feb. 19th, 1599, Alice his wife and their six children, 2 
sons and 4 daughters. The figure of William Wade has dis- 
appeared. 

In the British Record office under date June 1575 are articles 
exhibited (/. e. criminal proceedings) respecting Mr. Wade not 
conforming to the statute De Niimeru Scholanwn, from which it 
would seem that a limit as to number of pupils was placed upon 
the Wackford Squeerses of Tudor days. 

One John Wade was Mayor of Bristol in 1577 (19 Elizabeth). 
At Ipswich, in Suffolk was proved in 1579, the will of Agnes Ba- 
con of Helmingham, in that county, dated 17 Elizabeth (1575), 
and mentioning her daughter, Johane Wade, and her godson, 
Robert Wade, while the Herald's Visitation of the county of War- 
wick refers to Thomas Wade of Addingham parish as the husband 
of Isabel, the daughter of Arthur Monhault, alias Maude, of West 
Redlesden, in the county of York, and living in 1585. 

The register of the church at Seaton, in the county of Rutland, 
records the marriage, on February 20, 1589, of Robert Wade and 



Famous English Wades. 57 

Anne Johnson, while from the parish of Goathurst, in the county 
of Somerset, we find the baptism of Roger Wade, son of Roger 
Wade, parson, and Alice, his wife, on September i, 1594, and the 
burial of Roger Wade, parson, on June 10, 1595. 

Among the epigrams written by Daniel Rogers in the last quar- 
ter of the 1 6th century, and now preserved in the Marquis of 
Hertford's MSS., there is one on Erasmus Wade in Book 3, a can- 
celled one on William Wade, and another on the same person. 
{Historical MSS. Report IV., /, 252-j). An epigram on Sir Wil- 
liam Wade from the Earl of Leicester's MSS. will be found later 
in this work. 

In the MSS. of the Marquis of Salisbury, preserved at Hatfield 
House, is a statement bv one William Pities under date of August 
9, 1592, that a certain Thomas Wade, a merchant's servant of 
London, went to Spain in a small flyboat of Zealand, was put in 
prison, and afterwards died in the hospital. 

The calendar of pleadings of the Duchy of Lancaster discloses 
Anthony Wade, Samuel Wade and others in litigation as to land 
at Wakefield and Sowerby in the county of York, in 37 Elizabeth 
(1595), and in the same year one John Wade, husbandman, ser- 
vant to Thomas Lynn, of North Tudenham. in the county of Nor- 
folk, is returned as a Popish recusant. James Favel, of Keirly, 
in the parish of Kirkby Overblow, in the county of York, who 
died about 1653, is recorded as marrying Isabel, daughter of 

Wade of Monmouth, near Boroughbridge, in the same 

county. The marriage licence is dated in 1599 and gives the 
place of the bride's residence and of the ceremony as Wilberfoss. 

The Calendar of State Papers tells us of a Robert Waadson ad- 
venturing i^iio in the East India Company in January, 160S, of 
Nathaniel and Timothy Wade as interested in the same company in 
1 6 18, of Thomas Waad in 1622 and Ralph Wade in the following- 
year. 

In 1624 William Wade was supplying water-casks to ships 
bound to Surat, and on October 16, 1624, Robert Wade died on 
•the Charles River in Virginia, accidently shot in the arm. In 
1626 the executors of Thomas Wade sold ^600 stock in the East 
India Company, and a boy named William Wade was in Surat in 
February, 1629. 



58 The Wade Genealogy. 

We learn from Baker's Northampton, page 87, that on the north 
wall of the chancel of Brampton Church is a small marble tablet 
inscribed:— "EDWARDUS WADE, Oxoniensis Coll. Exon. Artium 
Magister. per 32 An'os ecclesiae Brampton reverendus Presbyter. 
Filius Edwardi Wade, quondam civis Exoniensis. Pro pietate 
colendissimi. Deo Patri, quam integra vita loquantur alii ipse 
dicam sanctissima morte gratissimus. Aetate simul et doctrina Con- 
summatus. an'os vixit 65. Vesicae doloribus vel spectatore Dis- 
trahentibus distorta potius quam saluta natura defunctus poenarum 
calcaribus et fiagellis Deo incitante Stadium exegit Miserrimum : 
mirabili potentia foelicissimum. Christiani militia probatus athleta. 
Christiani perseverantia moriens. Credo equidem nee vana fides. 
Christiani gloria et triumpho in coelis Servum suum Deus aeterne 
composuit. Ut incitator anima Edvardi Wade ad coelos : festin- 
aret corporis sui in habitos exuvias carnis molestam tunicam. 
Tanquam ruptus Elias pallium deposuit. Novemb. die 18. a'o 
D'ni. 1635." 

This Edward Wade was, it may be said, presented to the rec- 
tory of Holdenby , December 13, 1603, and held the living of 
Brampton together with that of Holdenby, until his death as above 
chronicled. The monument also records the deaths of his three 
children as follows: — "Robert Wade. May 20, 1625; Isabel, 
1618; and Mary, 1627." William Wade married Agnes Cromwell 
at Henbury, Gloucestershire, June 9, 1600 (;). 

X^'right's History of t lie Counly of Essex, informs us that Adrian 
IN'^ott of Braintree in that county married Jane Wade about 1604, 
and the Registers of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, London, 
under date of Februar}^ 2, 160S, record the marriage of Thomas 
Wade and Helen Pelleter. 

A curious instance of the association of a Wade with one of the 
names sacred to us as one of the principals among the Pilgrim 
Fathers and in that selfsame parish of Austerfield, whence sprang 
the seed of that great planting, appears from the will of Robert 
Bradford of Austerfield, in the countx^ of York, who was buried 
April 23, 1609. He mentions Grace Wade, a servant, in his wilL 
Fortunate indeed would we be if for a brief moment we could un- 
roll the past and trace this Grace Wade. We might then, per- 

(;-). See Notes and (lueries. 9th Series, III., May 13, 1S99, P- S^?- 



Famous English Wades. 59 

haps, learn more of the three sturdy yeomen, men of worship and 
substance, who planted the Massachusetts branch of the Wade 
family as early as 1632. In England, alas, civil strife and most 
negligent clergy are responsible for the loss or destruction of 
scores of priceless church records. Unknown to all but One, our 
heroes dead and unrecorded lie. 

The will of Richard Wade of Hauton in the county of Lan- 
caster, yeoman, dated November 23, 1610, and proved at York, 
May 24, 161 1 gives to his youngest son, Richard Wade, his copy- 
holds in Halifax in the county of York — to his eldest son John 
Wade, three parts of all his implements of husbandry — to his son 
Richard, certain furniture, — to his daughter, Elizabeth, ^40. — to 
his grand-daughter, Susan Towneley, daughter of Thomas 
Towneley, £4. — to Ralph and Mary Rushton, children of his son- 
in-law, Ralph Rushton, £^ each. — to his daughter Ellen's base 
son, forty shillings, — and the residue of his estate to his seven 
children, John, Robert, Richard, Elizabeth, Anne, Ellen, and 
Jennet. He gave to his wife, Lettice, a yearly rentcharge, 
mentioned Richard Crooke of Pendle, late father-in-law of his son 
John Wade, and John Wade of Hauton, and he seems to have 
been a tenant of one Richard Towneley of Towneley, Esquire, to 
whom, as one of his executors, he left fifteen pounds in gold. 

The will of William Bacon, proved in 161 o. left the sum of 
twenty shillings to one Jane Wade of Helmingham in the county of 
Suffolk, and the Bishop of Lincoln's Marriage Licences record the 
licence for the marriage of William Brocklebank of Alford in the 
county of Lincoln, draper, and Elizabeth Wade of Boston in the 
same county, under date of August 3, 161 2, and state that they 
had relatives living at Stickney in Lincolnshire. Berry's Sussex 
Genealogies, p. 154 mention the marriage of John Gilbert of 
Willingdon and afterwards of Bletchingdon in the county of Sussex 
gentleman, (who was buried at Willingdon, April 16, 1627) to 
Joan, the daughter of — Wade of Willingdon, who was buried there, 
September 4, 16 18. 

The Marriage Licences of the Bishop of Lincoln record, under 
date of June 11, 1621, the marriage of Brian Wade of Kingerly, 
gentleman, and Susanne Harper of Lincoln, spinster. It is clear 
from the inclusion of Bryan Wade and Thomas Wade of Kingerly 



6o The Wade Genealogy. 

among the list of gentn- of the county at the Herald's Visitation 
of 1634, that this was a family of note and importance, and in this 
regard it is a matter for regret that the parish registers of Kingerly 
have suffered the not-infrequent fate: It is fortunate however 
that in the Diocesan registry at Lincoln are preserved transcripts 
of the Kingerly registers, which afford us the following particulars 
as to this family : — 

1621, June II, Brian Waad, gent., and Susan Harper, married. 

1622, Nov. 26, Bapt. Thomas, their son. 

1624, Nov. 23, Bapt. Jane, their daughter. 

1625, Dec. 26, Bapt. Jane, (2), their daughter. 
1627, June iS, Bapt. EHzabeth, their daughter. 
1629, July 20, Bapt. Susanna, their daughter. 
163 1, Nov. I, Bapt. Frances, their daughter. 
1635, Feb. 2, Bapt. Dorothye, their daughter. 
1644, Aug. I, Buried Lawrence, their son. 

167 1, Jan. 19, Buried Thomas Wade, gentleman. 
1691, Dec. 28, Buried, Frances Wade, widow. 

The will of William White of London, linendraper, dated 
August 20, 1622, and proved June 26. 1627, refers to land in 
Virginia, and has for an attesting witness, one John Wade. The 
Herald's Visitation of the county of Gloucester in 1623 refers to 
the marriage of Walter Kemeys to Sara, daughter of \Mlliam 
Wade, of Stoke in the same county. 

The registers of the church of St. Dunstan in the East, in 
London, record the marriage of John Yelles and Elizabeth Wade 
under date of January 29. 1624, while the Lincoln Marriage 
Licences of Februar)- 15, 1625, include the marriage licence of 
John Allison, yeoman, and Agnes Wade, spinster, both of Wigtoft, 
in the county of Lincoln. 

The Calendar of British State Papers (Colonial) under date of 
Nov. 17 1629, p. 103 contain abstracts of the Depositions of 
Capts. David and Thos. Kirke, John Love and Thomas Wade, 
factors for the adventurers in Canada, before Sir. Hen. Marten, 
Judge of the admiralt)-. They left Gravesend on 26 March, 1629, 
with 6 ships and 2 pinnaces. Arrived at Great Gaspe on 15 June 
and at Tadousac and Quebec, between that and 3rd of July. 
Traded with the natives for skins. Thos. Kirke with 200 men 
demanded the surrender of Quebec about 3rd July, which was 
given up on the 9th. 17 13 beaver skins were taken in the fort, 
and came into the Company's hands. 



Famous English Wades. 6i 

In the Marquis of Ormonde's jNIss., at Kilkenny Castle, there 
are numerous letters to and from Richard Wade, in Ireland, be- 
tween the dates of Dec. 14, 1631 and Oct. 30, 1657. 

The church registers of Maxey, in the county of Northampton, 
chronicle the marriage of Roger Wade and Anne Grange, on June 
8, 1629, and the baptism of Judith, daughter of Thomas Wade, on 
October 9, 1631. A daughter of John Henry, of Whitehall, Lon- 
don, gentleman to Philip, Earl of Pembroke, and afterwards Keep- 
er of the Orchard at Whitehall, and Page of the Back Stairs to 

James, Duke of York, married Wade. Her mother was 

Mrs. Magdalen Rochdale, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Westmin- 
ster, (who died March i, 1645), '^^^^^ ^'^^^ brother was the Rev. 
Philip Henry, of Broad Oak, Malpas, in the county of Chester, 
(who was born 1631 and died 1696). 

This was the age of colonization in Virginia, New England and 
New Jersey. It was but natural that the namesakes of ' the Eng- 
lish Columbus,' Armigel Wade, should have considerable part in 
this great emigration. Accordingly we find, in Virginia, from 1646 
or earlier, the names of Wades, some even bearing the peculiar 
Christian name of Armiger, and so undoubted descendants of the 
explorer. In New England, the record dates from 1632, when 
Jonathan, Nathaniel, and Nicholas Wade, wealthy yeomen of the 
English county of Norfolk, settled around the present site of Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts. In New Jersey, the family honor was sus- 
tained by Benjamin Wade, a clothier, who was for a while in Ja_ 
maica. Long Island, proceeding thence to Elizabethtown, in New 
Jersey, where he was one of the earliest settlers. These important 
members of the family will be found fully dealt with in the follow- 
ing and appropriate chapters of the present compilation. 

John Dike, of London, merchant, in 1633, is recorded as marry- 
ing Mary, daughter of Thomas Wade, of London, and in 1634, 
Richard AUport, of London, skinner, married Alice, daughter of 
John Wade, of the North. The Herald's Visitation of the county 
of Oxford in 1634, records the marriage of Charnell Petty, of 

Stoke, to Eleanor, daughter of Wade, of London. The 

Herald's Visitation of the county of Hertford, in the same year 
mentions the marriage of Alban Francis, of Salmons, to Elizabeth, 
daughter and heiress to Christopher Wad and Wido^^i of 



62 The Wade Genealogy. 

Westcott. The Visitation of the county of Bedford, in the same 
year, chronicles the marriage of Noah Neale, of Dean, in that 
county (born 1612), to Eunice, daughter of Thomas Wade, Es- 
quire, and her burial at Dean, March 14, 1664. 

On April 13, 1637, Anne Jessop, of Worksop, in the county of 
Nottingham, married a William Wade, at Worksop. One James 
Wade, of Colchester, in the county of Essex, Attorney, was from 
1638 to 1 64 1, appointed the attorney to act for some residents of 
the American colonies having property in Colchester, while a 
search of the parish registers in the Island of Barbados, reveals 
many instances of the name of Wade from 1G40 to 1690. 

One Sackville Wade is included in a list of the principal inhab- 
itants of London, " of the better sort and conceived to be of the 
best estate," in 1640. He seems to have resided in Castle Bay- 
nard ward and in the parish of St. Bennett's, Paul's wharf. This, 
apparently, is the man referred to in the Bishop's Transcripts at 
Ely, of the church registers of Over, in the county of Cambridge, 
wherein we find the entries: — " 1676. Jany. 10. Buried Margaret, 
ye wife of Sackville Wade, Esquire. 1676. Jany. 19. Buried 
Sackville Wade, Esquire." 

Dealing with Hampton and Hampton Court, Middlesex, Lysons, 
in his Environs of London, V. 79, says that a tomb in the floor of 
Hampton Church, commemorates James Darell, Esquire, Chief 
Clerk of the Spicery, third son of John Darell of Caile Hill, Kent. 
He married Catherine, daughter of Robert Waide, gentleman, and 
died 1638. 

A certain Sarah Stringer, daughter of Francis Stringer, of 
Whiston, in the county of York (baptised June 29, 1642), married 
Robert Wade of Barnby Don, in the same county, gentleman, and 
one Nathaniel Waterhouse, of Halifax in the county of York, gen- 
tleman (bapt. Sept. II, 1586, will dated July i, 1642, died June 
3, 1645), nientions his cousin, John Wade of Skircote, in his will. 
Burke also records in his Latided Gentry, that Mary Waterhouse, 
daughter of Anthony Waterhouse, of Woodhouse, clothier, married 
John Wade of King's Cross, in the county of York, gentleman. 
(As to this family of Wade of King's Cross, see post in this chap- 
ter). 

Curious indeed is an entry in the Diocesan records of the 



Famous English Wades. 63 

Bishop of Ely. From it we find that old England suffered from 
the pestilent fallacy of belief in witchcraft as badly or w^orse than 
our own pious forbears in Salem. Under date of May 30, 1647, 
there appears the information of Alice Wade, wife of William 
Wade of Stretham, taken upon oath before one Theo. Cartell, Esq., 
complaining of one Dorothy Ellis having touched her child's 
cheek and mumbled some words, which caused the child's face to 
swell and an eye to fall out ! 

This was the age of the Commonwealth and the unfortunate 
Royalists, somewhat like our Tories or Loyalists in the Revolution, 
and the Union men in the South, had to suffer at the hands of the 
dominant Roundheads, and to arrange pecuniary matters with a 
Committee for Compounding. On February 18, 1647, Cuthbert 
Wade of Kilnsey, in Craven, in the county of York (as to this fam- 
ily see pedigree hereinafter), compounded for his delinquency. 
He was fined at one-sixth of the annual value of his estate, ;^2 2 2 
(/. e. about $1,100), for being related to the Earl of Cumberland, 
and for having taken up arms against the Parliament. He is re- 
corded as having voluntarily submitted, November 10, 1645, ^o 
Colonel Edward Briggs, then commanding in chief the foot forces 
in Westmoreland, according to the New Model, and as having 
taken the negative oath and the national covenant. 

One Edward Wade, a clergyman, of Swinford, in the county of 
Leicester, appears as a delinquent, whose benefice had been 
sequestered about March 3, 1651, and a man of the same name of 
Angmering, in the county of Suffolk, is recorded as owing a 
recusant a debt of £12,^. Nicholas Wade, a delinquent of 
Faversham, in the county of Kent compounded for his estates at 
^400 on July 4, 165 1 and Savil Wade (probably the Sackville 
Wade mentioned anfe), of Over in the county of Cambridge, is 
mentioned as a delinquent in April 1656. A certain Robert 
Wade, of Altham in the county of Lancaster, claimed a house 
seized by the Committee and refuted the charge of being a 
delinquent in June 1654. 

Burke, in his Landed Gentry, records the marriage (about 1650), 
of Robert Clutterbuck to Sarah, daughter of John Wade, Esquire, 
and Edward Barker of Dore, in the parish of Dronfield Wood- 
house, in the county of Derby, (aged 13 in 161 1, died March 29^ 



64 The Wade Genealogy. 

1660), married as his second wife, Dorothy Wade, widow, at 
Hathersedge, on September 14, 1652. 

The Calendar of the State Papers (Colonial) (1574-1660) dis- 
closes a curious state of affairs in the island of Montserrat in the 
West Indies. On December 6, 1654 Samuel Waad of Topsham 
in Devonshire petitioned the Lord Protector Cromwell, alleging 
that his son Samuel had been illegally shot to death at Montserrat 
on May i, 1654 by command of Governor Roger Osborne, who 
had seized his estate to the value of ;^ 12,000 and converted it to 
his own use. The testimony of Henry Waade, Richard Waad and 
Henry Wheeler accompanied the petition and spoke of Osborne as 
an Irishman with Irish accomplices. On January 29, 1655 Crom- 
well referred the petition to General Disborowe, the Earl of 
Mulgrave, Colonel Montagu and Sir Gilbert Pickering for their 
report. The other side of the story appears under date December 
31, 1655, when J^o/jc/i Oshorne, (presumedly the Governor or some 
relation), petitioned that he was the guardian of one Anthony 
Briskett, whose mother, the relict of Anthony Briskett deceased, had 
married Samuel Waad; that Waad had possessed himself of the 
estate and had been condemned for a mutiny. Osborne prayed 
an enquiry and that the orphan might be continued in his father's 
estate. Unfortunately the ultimate decision as to Waad's murder 
or execution does not appear in the state papers. 

One John Wade signs the registers at English Bicknor in the 
county of Gloucester, in 1656, and was apparently the vicar of the 
parish at that date, while the registers of St. Margaret's, Lee, 
in the county of Kent, record the mariage of John Hanford of Lee 
and Mary Wade of Hoath, as solemnized on June 12, 1660. 

Thomas Waade was in the isle of St. Christopher, West Indies, 
in 1666, and a Richard Waad was a settler in the island of Nevis, 
West Indies, in 1668. 

Robert Wade of Lopsham, in the county of Suffolk, gentleman, 
was supervisor of the will of Thomas Smith of Thranderton, in 
Suffolk, gentleman, in 1665, and the Herald's Visitation of the 
county of Berks in 1664-5, records that Mary, daughter of Timo- 
thy Wade, of London, merchant, was married to Richard Bigge of 
Hains Hill in Hurst, Berkshire, who was born in 16 13. Mary 
Wade, his second wife, is described as the sole heiress of her father 






c^sIk^ 



Famous English Wades. 65 

and relict of Edward Cooke, D.D. A Herald's Visitation of the 
county of Dorset in 1665, mentions the marriage of Phellip Grey, 
of Askerwell, to Wade. 

A deed, in the compiler's possession, dated in 1664, and made 
between John Wade of Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, and 
Francis Edmund, Samuel Coleman and Joseph Coleman, all of the 
town of Ipswich, relates to lands in Holpitt and Drenkeston, in 
the county of Suffolk, and bears the quaint signatures of John 
Wade and other parties. 

The registers of the church of Barnston, near Great Dunmow, 
in Essex, record the marriage of Margaret Wade and Mr. Nicho- 
las Collard on April 7, 1670, and the bride's burial on October 10 
of the same year. The marriage of Thomas Wade to Elizabeth 
Lane appears from the church registers of Micheldean, in the 
county of Gloucester, in 1676. " Cosen Jaine Waide of Barnstone, 
in the county of Nottingham, and her two sons " are mentioned as 
legatees in the will of Elizabeth Sheppeardson of Owsthorpe, in 
that county, dated March 29, 1661, and proved at York on June 
14, 1 68 1, while the will of William Wade, late of Westham, in Sus- 
sex, yeoman, bound to Pennsylvania in America, speaks of his 
brothers, Edmund and Thomas, and of Edmund, the eldest, and 
Thomas, the younger son of his brother Edmimd. This will is^ 
dated August 24, 16S2, and is proved October 28 in the same- 
year, in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury 
(Register, Cottle, 124). 

The calendar of Wills in the Court of the Hustings of the city 
of London, gives us the will of Timothy Wade, Esquire, of June 26, 
1685. He appears to have been a wealthy citizen of that ancient 
city, devising to his wife, Martha, his Essex lands, x\ldermanbury 
house, Brentford, Hanwell, and Heston estates ; and bequeathing 
to her plate, jewels, etc. John Nevil, of Ridgewell, Essex, died 
February 27, 16S7, and buried there, married Jane, daughter of 
Nat. Wade of Halsted, in Essex. (Chauncey's Hertfordshire^ I., 
551). William Wade, an infant of Woodcroft, was buried Feby. 
19, 1692, at Maxey in Northamptonshire. 

A certain John Wade, of London, stuffman, married Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Gilbert Upton, before 1693, and is men- 
tioned in his will then dated. The marriage licences of the dio- 



66 The Wade Genealogy. 

cesan registry at Worcester, record on April 14, 1699, the issuance 
of a licence to marry to John Wagstafif and Elizabeth Wade, 
widow, both of Wick-by-Pershore in Worcestershire, and Burke's 
Landed Gentry informs us that Hugh Hammersle)' of Doncaster, 
in the county of York, attorney, (who died December 11, 1750, 
aged 50, and was buried at Doncaster), married as his first wife, 
Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Wade of Doncaster. 

Numerous instances of the name of Wade occur in the resfis- 
ters of the church of Kirksted-cum-Langhale, in the county of 
Norfolk, from 1700 to 1795, while the registers of St. Mary, Lew- 
isham, in the county of Kent, record the marriage of J. Clowder 
and Anne Wade on September 21, 1704. and that of Susunnah 
Waide of Deptford, to Thomas Salmon, on August 27, 17 15. 

An altar tomb in the churchyard of New Buckenham in the 
county of Norfolk, bears for a .crest a lion, passant, chained, and 
for arms, Argent, 3 bucks' heads, erased, sable. It commemorates 
Thomas Wade, who died October 17, 1708; Robert Wade, his 
brother, who died, November 7, 1708; and John Wade, their 
uncle, who died July 23, 1726 aged 73 years. Joane Upton, of 
St. Margarets, Newington, near London, mentions her niece, 
Elizabeth Wade, in her will dated in 17 10, while from the proceed- 
ings of the Virginia Historical Society, we learn that the Reverend 
Peter de la Fontaine, B. A., born 1691, and ordained by the 
Bishop of London, married secondly, after March 17 15, and 
probably in Virginia, one E — Wade. Mr. De la Fontaine 
emigrated to Virginia in 17 16 and at one time was rector of King 
William and Westover parishes in Virginia. (As to Wade of 
Virginia, see Chapter V.) 

Blount's Tenures, page 277, informs us that one Andrew Wade, 
a master cutler of the town of Sheffield, was called in a trial as an 
old man who remembered an old custom, which had been dropped 
in 17 16. The church registers of Branfield, Suffolk, record the 
burial of Elizabeth Wade on September 27, 17 17, and at St. 
Martin's-at-Plain in the city of Norwich is an inscription to Samuel 
Wade, who died in 1727, aged 59, and to William, Samuel, and 
Anne, his children, who died in infancy. The monument bears 
for arms, Azure, a saltire between 4 escallops, or, and for crest, 
an escallop, or. 



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67 



Burke's Landed Gen/ry is the raithority for the marriage of 
Searles Wade, gentleman, of Woodbridge. in the county of Suf- 
folk, to Laura, daughter of Thomas Carthew, about 1733, and also 
that Peter Wade, of the Booths, Yorkshire, married in 1744, Anne, 
daughter and coheiress of Peter Wade, Esquire. 

Lyson in his Environs of London, I. 472, mentions a monument 
in the chancel of Rotherhithe Church to the memory of Mr. Jos- 
eph \\'ade. King's Carver, in his Majesty's yards at Deptford and 
Woolwich, who died in 1743. 

D'ealing with Hackney, Lysons also mentions the tombs of 
Thomas Wade, Esquire, 1754, and the Reverend Nelthorpe Wade, 




Arms and Crest on the monument to Samuel Wade m the Church of 

St. Martin-at-Plain, Norwich, England. Arms. Azure, a saltire 

between four escallops, or. Crest. An escallop, or. 

Rector of Priston, county Somerset, 1781, as existing in the 
churchyard of Hackney, Middlesex. 

In 1757 the Manor of Cranbrook was owned by Samuel Wade 
of Barking (Lyson's E?ivtrons of L.ondon, IV. 648). 

Parmenters, in Ridgewell parish, Essex, was the property of 
Ambrose Wade in 1770. 

In the old burying ground of the parish of St. Andrew's, 
Jamaica, West Indies, is a memorial inscribed " In memory of Ja- 
cob Wade, died 1759, aged 70 years," and we find that Jane Heard, 
of Bridgewater, in the county of Somerset, married at Montreal, 



68 The Wade Genealogy. 

Canada, January, 1765, Matthew Wade, merchant, and died without 
issue in Jamaica, December 5, 1783. There were EngUsh soldiers 
of the name in the West Indies, as we find that Peter, the son of 
Captain John Goldsmith Wade, and Louisa, his wife, born April 
17, 1785, was baptised December 4, 1785, at St. Paul's Antigua, 
and John Wade, captain of engineers, was buried at St. John's, 
Antigua, October 15, 1786. In the burial ground of the parish of 
St. Andrew's, Jamaica, is a slab inscribed : — "The body of John 
Wade — July, 1S07." 

A pionumental inscription in Lewisham church records the 
deaths of Edward Wade, March 23. 1839, his wife, Margaret 
Wade, February 18, 1839, ^'""^^ their daughter, Henrietta Mary 
Anne (Wade) Emberson, April 13, 1S38. But this list of dis- 
jointed extracts must draw to a conclusion to make way for the 
more extended entries in Herald's Visitations and public records. 
Before ending, one must chronicle two deeds of shame. Captaia 
Cooper Wade, of H. M. S. Defiance of the British Royal Navy 
was one of the six captains who so shamefully deserted brave old Ad 
miral Benbow, in his sea fight with Admiral Ducasse and the French 
fleet. This unworthy member of the family was tried by court 
martial at Port Royal, Jamaica, with a Captain Kirby, and was shot 
on his arrival at Plymouth, on board H. M. S. Bristol. That one 
( f the Wades followed the lucrative but dangerous calling of Dick 
Turpin appears from the Gentleman's Magazine of 1755, wherein 
c ne Christopher Wade is recorded as receiving sentence of death 
at the Old Bailey in London, "for the highway." 

But the name obtained the honor of inclusion in the fiction of 
the novelist Charles Dickens, as many will recall the Miss Wade of 
his /////(' Dorrit, misanthrope as she was, and man-hater as he de- 
picts her. 

Marcus Clarke, also in a novel entitled Foi- the Term of 
His Xatiir'al Life makes use of Armigel Wade and several 
members of the Wade family as dramatis personce, but without 
any historical accuracy. One instance more and the end is 
reached : — It is an honorable instance, as our name is associated 
with that of the " day-star of the English reformation," — the great 
Wycliffe. A tombstone in the church yard of Whitkirk, in the 
county of York, bears the following inscriptton : — " Sacred to the 



Famous English Wades. 69 

Memory of MRS. KATHERINE WADE of Halton, the last de- 
scendant of the family which in the 1 4th centur)- produced the Re- 
former, WYCLIFFE. She died in great peace, Jany. 29th. 1838. 
Aged 75 years. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of 
his saints. Ps. cxvi. 15." 

Being a Miss Wycliffe, she married first Walter Sellon Gibson, 
Esq., of Leeds, and bore him a son, Walter Sellon Gibson, of York. 
Her husband died of the black fever, contracted while visiting the 
poor, and, after a widowhood of 14 years, she married Edward 
Wade of Stourton Grange. After living 14 years with her second 
husband he died, and she then resided at Halton, in the county of 
York, until her death. 

From the foregoing the reader will have seen that the Wades 
were people of note and mark in the olden time. The frequent 
occurence of the name in Herald's Visitations is the surest evi- 
dence of good birth, for the old time herald was nothing if not a 
sycophant and disdained to bestow the title of esquire on any but 
a landed proprietor. 

The following series of pedigrees, wills and extracts from parish 
registers relate to families of the name of which records are more 
connected and perfect. It also includes instances of the famous 
Wades of the days gone by. Naturally the first concern will be 
with the Yorkshire family of Waad or Wade, famous as producing 
Armigel Waad, or Wade — " the English Columbus " — as his 
monument in the church at Hampstead, Middlesex, used to boast 
before it fell a sacrifice to the zeal of the church-restorer ; his son. 
Sir William Waad, or Wade, the subservient Lieutenant of the 
Tower of London, who was such a busybody in ferreting out the 
details of the Gunpowder Plot, and so great a factor in the colon- 
ization of Virginia and the Bermuda Islands, and, lastly, if we may 
believe the account of the not-always-reliable Sir Bernard Burke, 
famed also as the ancestral stock of Field Marshal General George 
Wade, the commander-in-chief of the British army in early Georg- 
ian days. But this last distinction requires more evidence to sup. 
port it, as will be seen from the following data. 

By reference to the map of the county of York, in the north of 
England, the reader will find, nestling near the rugged fells of the 
adjoining county of Lancaster and in the midst of the bleak beauty 



yo The Wade Genealogy. 

of the Yorkshire wolds and Cumberland dales, a hamlet, near 
Coniston, called Kilnsey. Here, not many miles away from 
Whalley, where Duke Wada was defeated, and in the heart of that 
wild Northumbria, where Teutonic folk-stories of Wada were num- 
erous and curious, was early settled a notable family of the Wades. 
That these Wades were of long standing in this district appears 
from the Poll Tax roll of 2 Rich. II (1379). At Silsden, York- 
shire, W^ilhelmus Wade and his wife were taxed four pence, and 
Matilda Wade a like amount. The name of De Wode or del 
Wode is of frequent occurrence at Bolton Abbey, Coniston, Mal- 
ham and adjoining places. William Wade of Addingham, York- 
shire, was a horse soldier of the battle of Flodden Field. Septem- 
ber 9, 15 13, serving under Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, 
" The Shepherd Lord of Barden Tower," when, as the old ballad 
runs : 

" All that Craven coast did till 
They with the lusty Clifford came." 

Speight's excellent book on the Yorkshire moors around Kiln- 
sey gives some interesting particulars of these Wades of Kilnsey, 
and conveys a good idea of the romantic beauty of the district where- 
in these sturdy woldsmen lived. • 

As a graceful writer says of it : — '• Here is a shire which from 
the first twilight of our stormy history has caught all men's imag- 
ination by the strength and vigor of its life ; a stage on which the 
grandest dramas have been played out with pomp and tragedy ; 
a soil which has been drenched through and through by the very 
noblest blood in England ; a sturdy bulwark thrust well-nigh 
across the whole width of the country, in the track of the Scotch 
invasion ; a land of tradition, of romance, and one withal of beauty 
so great and varied, so rare a medley of exquisite river-valleys 
falling out of wild moorland hills, of high, grassy dales along the 
wind-swept mountains, and of stern seacoast as can be matched 
only in one other shire. If life in Yorkshire had been tame 
throughout all histor}^ if its dalesmen had been peaceful shep- 
herds and its Barons ready to give unquestioning loyalty to every 
King who sat at Westminster, if its townsmen had been placid 
traders and its great forests had never bred an outlaw — yet men 
would have wandered over its mountains and gazed down its val- 
leys with delight for their very beauty. * * * Every mile of 
the vast area of Yorkshire is an epitome of English history, but 



Famous Jlnglish Wades. 71 

more than th.it, a monument of tierce passions and bloody trage- 
dies, of cruel raids and gallant expeditions, which cries out loudly 
for our sympathy and interest, even in these days of peace. For 
many a century Yorkshire life was a splendid pageant, and though 
the banners and the pennants have long since swept away else- 
where, though the dales are silent which used to echo with the 
clank of spears or harness, and the daws nest freely in the roofless 
castles of Scrope and Mobray, or defile the sacred prerincts of 
Fountains and of Rievaulx — still those who listen rightly may 
catch some echo of the distant music, clear and ringing through 
all the generations which have come and gone. A very little 
fancy will people those valleys once more with the musters of sturdy 
yeomen who rode to Bannockburn or Flodden, will raise again the 
banners of the Five Wounds of Christ, or call up the picture of 
the first messengers spurring into York from the field of Marston 
Moor, where, through the long summer evening, the citizens knelt 
praying in their churches that they might be spared that terror 
which was surely falling on them."' 

It is the land around the proud Fountains, fair Kirklees and 
stately Bolton Abbeys, on the borders of the Lake country sacred 
to Wordsworth, a localty pregnant with folklore of heroic deeds. 
Men from these dales fought at Otterbourne as well as Flodden, and 
oft-times hunted the stark moss-troopers back to their holds. 
Speight says that Kilnsey Hall, the whilom seat of the Wades, is 
fast falling into decay, but that it still shews the family arms and 
the inscription •• C. W. 1648,'- standing for Christopher Wade, 
whose son Cuthbert was a captain of Royalist Dragoons in 1675. 
In 32 Hen VIII. (1541) on the dissolution of the monasteries, the 
king granted Kilnsey to Sir Richard Gresham, Kt., (s) of whom 
Sir John Yorke, Sheriff of London and Lender Treasurer of the 
Mint, purchased it in 6 Edw VI. (1552). Lady Anne Clifford^ 
daughter of the last Earl of Cumberland, records in her MS diary 
a visit to •' Mr. Cuthbert Wade's house at Kilnsey " when she 
was 74 years of age. 

That this particular family of Wades was of the order of gentle- 

(s) Wade may have owed his introduction at court to Sir Richard 
Gresham. Sir William Wade calls Sir John Yorke "cosen," and as 
will be seen later the Wades of Kilnsea were said to be related to the 
Earl of Cumberland. Neither of these relationships has been ascer- 
tained by the present compiler. 



72 The Wade Genealogy. 

people appears from the Herald's Visitation of the County of 
York, made by Sir William Dugdale, Garter-King-at-Arms, in 
1665, for under date of Skipton, August 17, 1665, when recording 
the pedigrees of the gentry resident in the Wapentake of Staine- 
cliffe, the King-at-Arms recorded a descent of Wade of Kilnsey, 
which, preserved in the Harleian MSS. 4630, folio 663. in the 
British Museum, has been reproduced in the I'ransac/iotis of the 
Surtees Society. Vol. XXXVI, p. 32, and also, more recently, 
and with some additions, in the pages of the Genealogist, Vol. XI 
NS. p. 160-1. (1894). The Herald then ascribed to the family as 
arms; azure, a saltire between 4 escallops, or, and for crest, a 
rhinoceros argent, but was careful to note on his visitation rolls 
that "no proofe was made of these amies." 

There is a curious family tradition as to this rhinoceros crest, it 
being said that a rhinoceros horn was presented to Armigel or Sir 
William Wade by the King of Spain on attendance at the court of 
that monarch as ambassador of the King of England. This 
most curious horn, with the name and arms of \^'aad inscribed on 
it, is to-day in the possession of a descendant of Armigel Wade, 
Mr. William de Vins Wade, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of 
Judicature in England, who resides at Great Dunmow, in the 
county of Essex, and who, as a worthy son of the old stock, has re- 
cently, and at considerable expense, restored the tomb of Sir Wil- 
liam Wade in the church of Manuden, in the county of Essex. 

(There was a strange mediaeval belief in the virtues of rhinoceros 
horn as a poison-detector. It was alleged that if poison were put 
into a vessel made of rhinoceros' horn, the liquid contained therein 
would effervesce. Other strange Eastern beliefs as to the rhino- 
ceros appear in Sinbad's Second Voyage, in '* The Arabian 
Nights." As to the meaning of the unusual Christian name of 
Armigil, still in use among the Wades, An English Garfier, (Vol. 
IL, p, 61), says; "The name Armigill is probably the same as 
Armgold, and cognate with the German Eringild." What the ori- 
gin of the name is is uncertain. Miss Yonge, in her History of 
Christian Names, gives Ermengild as used in Russia, and interprets 
it as equivalent to " Public pledge." 

A family tradition has it that Armigaal is the Portuguese for a 
rhinoceros, but this, of course, is devoid of foundation, as both 



Famous English Wades. 73 

the Spanish and Portuguese languages call a rhinoceros — rhinocer- 
ente. Almarjal a garden of glasswort, is the only similar regular 
Spanish word, but Annajal a fen. moor or bog. is given as a pro- 
vincial Spanish word and is possibly the true origin of the name. 
It was perhaps suggested by the natural features of the Yorkshire 
moors, which encircled Wade's birthplace, to some Spanish captive 
or traveler, and by him given to Wade's father. 

As to the use of a similar name as a surname, see Le Neve's 
Knights (Harl. Socy. p. 76), where there is a pedigree of four gen- 
erations of the descendants of Sir Clement xYrmiger, (knighted 18 
June, 1660) of Bloomsbuiy. Middlesex and North Creake, Norfolk. 

There was also an ancient familv of the name of Armisrer in Suf- 
folk and Norfolk. Robert Armiger was at Ottley, in Suffolk, in 
1386. There are lands in that parish called Armigers. The 
family were lords of the manor of Monewden, Suffolk, at an early 
date. (See Xotes and Queries, 5th Series 2, 458 ; 6th Series, VII., 
428, VIII., 75, 135). 

There is a town called Armiger in Anne Arundel countv, Marv- 
land, with a population of 1 2 persons. It is situate near Annapo- 
lis. Several persons of this peculiar surname reside in Baltimore, 
Mar}'land. 

Two other derivations for this unusual Christian name are af- 
forded by Lower, Pa irony mica Briiannica, Armiger or Arminger 
is, of course, the Latin armiger (arm-bearer), an esquire, the next 
in degree to a knight. Lower also quotes the Register of Battel 
Abbey to shew that the upper servants of an abbey were termed 
armigeri. Now Kilnsea was in possession of the monks until 
Henr)' VIII. gave it to Sir Thomas Gresham, and Armigil Waad 
was, as we know, related to Comyn, the Prior of Nostel. Even if 
Armigil Waad himself did not come from Kilnsea, the Wade fam- 
ily flourished around Bolton and Fountains Abbeys, where once the 
monks were all powerful until a divorce-seeking king turned re- 
former and iconoclast.) 

Later records and the compiler's own researches have so added 
to this pedigree of Wade as to much improve the Herald's Visita- 
tion, and it may well be stated in the usual American manner as 
follows : 



74 



The Wade Genealogy. 



WADE OF KILNSEA AND LONDON. 
FIRST GENERATION. 



- Wade (the ancestor), probably of Kilnsea in Craven, m 

the County of York, living about 1500. 
Married (daughter of Coniyn and sister of 

Alured Comyn (/), Prior of St. Oswald, Nostel, Yorke.) 




Wade of Kilnsea in Craven, Yorkshire. (Herald's Visitation of York- 
shire, 1665). Arms. Azure, a saltire between 4 escallops or. 
Crest. A rhinosceros, argent. 



SECOND GENERATION. 



Issue : — 



Wade. 



3. Armigel Wade. 

4. Elizabeth Wade, married Robert Allott of Bentley 

Grange, Yorkshire (/). 
{t) (This connection of Wade and Coniyn, a curious point in this 
descent, is shown in the achievement of Sir William Wade at the 
Tower of London, who depicts on his marshalled coat of arms. 
I. Wade. 2. Gules, a chevron, between three boars' heads, couped 
argent. (Also a Wade coat of arms.) 3. Gules, 3 garbs, or, (Coniyn 
bears :— Gules, 3 garbs, ar^^fuf). 4. Or, 2 bars, azure, in chief 3 water 
bougets, gules. (See Bayley's Tcm'cr of London, i, 130.) As to Nostel 
Priorv, see Burke's Vicissitudes of Families, Vol. I, pp. 313-321. The 
will of Elizabeth (Wade) Allott, sister of Armigel Wade and niece of 
Wilhani (?-Alured) Comvn. Prior of Nostel, Yorkshire, is dated Febru- 
arv I, 1566. In it she desired to be buried in the church or church- 
yard of Eniley in the County of York. The inventory of her estate 
is dated Sept. 17, 1567, and the will of her husband, Robert Allott, 
is dated 1541.) 



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75 



SECOND GENERATION. 

- Wade (son of ) b. 

Jllarried : — 
Issue : — 

5. Arthur Wade 



(daughter of ). 



3. Armigel Wade (son of -), b. about 15 11; d. 156S. 

Married: — I, Anna INIerbury, or Marbury, {11) daughter of 
Thomas Marbury, citizen and haberdasher, of London, 

(widow of Bradley, by whom she had at least 

the two daughters, Anne and Judithe, mentioned in 
Armigel Wade's will). 

Married: — II, Alice Patten (daughter of Richard Patten, 
of London, widow of Thomas Searle of Essex, who died 
after 1536. She died 1568). 

Issue : — 

(I.) 6. - 



(II.; 



7 

8 

9 
10 

II 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 

17 

18, 

19 
20 
21 
22 

23 
24 
25 



Wade. 
Wade. 
Wade. 



Law, b. 1547, d. 



William Wade, b. about 1546. 
Thomas Waad, a Reader in the 

Dec, 1594. 
Joyce Wade (dau.) 
Ann Wade (dau.) 

Wade (dau.) 

Wade (son), died before 156S (7 

Wade (son), died before 156S. 

Wade (son), died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1568. 

Wade, died before 1 56S. 

deserves, as will be seen, more than passing 



I- Sons. 



Armigel Wade 

notice. 

{u) Arms of Marbury : Sable, a cross engrailed, between 4 pheons, 
argent. Arms of Merbury : Or, on a fesse, engrailed, azure, 3 garbs 
of the field. The State papers contain a petition of Thomas Marbury 
and Ebzabeth, his wife, dated Feb. i, 1573, asking for a regrant 
of lands in County Bedford, and refer to a pension of ^20 granted to 
Elizabeth Marbury being in arrear. The biography of a spy of this 
name appears in the Dictionary of National Bioi^rapliy, and both 
Armigel and his son. Sir William, had much to do with the employ- 
ment of spies. See also (Harl. Socy., Vol. i, p. 51, Visit, of London 
in 156S.) 



76 The Wade Genealogy. 

But scanty indeed is the information we possess as to tliis early 
werthy. The principal account of him is to be found in Park's 
Topography and Natural History of Hampstead in the County of 
Middlesex, England (1818), which tells that "he was descended 
from the Wades of Yorkshire, in which county he was born ; and, 
according to Anthony Wood (iv), spent some years in logic and 
philosophy in Magdalen College, Oxford ; and, it seems, took a 
degree in Arts there ; finished his education at one of the Inns of 
Court (a), and then commenced his travels. This is evidently 
the routine of a person in the superior walks of life, although we 
are ignorant of his parentage. Upon his return he was attached 
to the Court by being appointed Clerk of the Council to Heniy 
VUL, which office was continued to him in the following reign. 
^^'ood asserts that he had made many observations in his travels, 
especially in America (being the first Englishman that discovered 
it), which are remitted into the volumes of travels collected and 
published by another hand. {Athenae Oxoniensis I., 154). This 
statement as to the discovery of America is certainly authorized 
by Mr. Waad's monumental inscription, from whence the whole of 
Wood's account is taken, but, further authority, I can find none. 
He is indeed said to have been styled ' The English Columbus' 
(Morant's History of Essex, vol. II., p. 631), and Dr. Fuller 
{Worthies 0/ Yorkshire, p. 203) afiirms "that his several voyages 
are largely described in Mr. Hackluit, his travels. 

"I believe the reader may search in vain, there or elsewhere, for 
' Waad's Voyages,' although he will find his name mentioned as 
an adventurer to Newfoundland in the account of Hore's voyage 
to that island in 1536 " (Park's Hampstead, p. 138). 

(7') It is probable that one of Armigel Wade's sons was named Chris 
topher, and was Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1561; B. A. 10 
July, 1562; M. A, 1567, and died young. (See Foster's Aluniiii Oxon- 
iensis.) Armigel himself was a graduate of this college. 

{ii'). (Foster, in his Atumi O.xonicnsis, supplies these data: "Armigel 
Wade, B. A., from Magdalen College, January 23, 2531-2, a great trav- 
eler and the first English discoverer of America — Clerk of the Council 
to Henry VIII. and Edward VI. — M.P. for Chipping Wycomb, (1547-52) 
—sometimes called a knight. Died at Belsize, Hampstead, 20 June, 
1568. (See Wood's At heuiz Oxoniensis, I., 360, Foster's Parliamentary 
Dictionary). 

(.r). Possibly the Middle Temple, as his name does not occur in the 
registers of the other three principal inns of court. 



Famous English Wades. 



77 



Another evidence of the standing of Armigel Wade exists in the 
grant to him of a coat of arms by Gilbert Dethick, Garter King at 
Arms. (A. No. 196). The arms, as will be seen from the accom- 
panying illustration, differ curiously from the usual Wade Arms, 
and are remarkable as possessing 2 crests. 

It is perhaps permissible in a genealogical work to speculate on 
the probable date of Armigel Waad's birth, especially as the church 
registers of Coniston do not commence before 1560. He graduated 
B.A. at Oxford on 23 January, 153 1-2. It was in the days of 
early graduations, but to be conservative, if he were 20 years old 
at graduation, he was born about 15 11. and if so, was 58 years old 
at his death in 1568. It is, of course, possible that he was older at 



„:^^^ 




Arms and Crests granted by Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King at Arms, 
to Armigel Waad, Esquire, Secretary of the Privy Council. 
See additional MSS. 12454, and Harleian MSS. 
V 5S47, in the British IMuseum. 

graduation. An extreme case might suppose him living to be 83 
years old, as such born in 1485 (i Hen. VII.) and graduating in 
1531 at the age of 46, did not his life disprove this. It was a 
young and adventurous man who in 1536 sailed in the Minion on 
Here's voyage of exploration. The risks were those a man of 25 
years of age would take. His travels and his lifework were done 
before he was 50 years old, and we may fairly place him as born 
about 151 1, (2 Hen. VHL). Thus he saw nearly all of Bluff 



78 The Wade Genealogy. 

King Hal's reign, the, brief rule of Edward VL, Bloody Mary's 
persecution of the Protestants, and stern Elizabeth's similar 
treatment of the Papists. If he were born about 151 1, he was 29 
years old when he was appointed Clerk of the Council at Calais, 35 
years old at the birth of his son \\'illiam, 36 when ajDpointed third 
clerk of the privy council, and 37 when elected Member of Par- 
liament. The balance of probability is thus in favor of his birth 
about 1 5 1 1 . 

So valuable and interesting is this account of the voyage of the 
English Columbus that the compiler subjoins the extract from 
Hakluyt verbatim. It runs as follows : " The Master Hore of 
London, a man of goodly stature and great courage, and given to 
the study of cosmographie, in the twenty-eighth year of King 
Henry the Eighth, and in the year of our Lord 1536, encouraged 
divers gentlemen and others, being assisted by the king's favour 
and good countenance, to accompany him in a voyage of discov- 
erie upon the northwest parts of America : Wherein his persua- 
sion took such effect that within short space many gentlemen of 
the Inns of Court and of the Chancerie, and divers others of 
good worship, desirous to see the good things of the world, very 
willingly entered into the action with him, some of whose names 
were as follows : Mr. Weekes, a gentleman of the west country, of 
five hundred marks by the year living ; Mr. Tucke, a gentleman 
of Kent; Mr. Tuckfield ; Mr. Thcmas Butts, ( r) the son of Sir 
William Butts, knight, of Norfolk, (which was lately living, and 
from whose mouth I wrote most of this relation) ; Mr. Hardie ; 
Mr. Biron ; Mr. Carter; Mr. Wright; Mr. Rastall (Sergeant 
Rastall's brother) ; Mr. Ridley and divers others, which all were 
in the Admyrall, called the Triniiie, a ship cf seven score tunnes, 
wherein Mr. Hore himself was imbarked. In the other ship, 
whose name was the Minion^ went a verj' learned and virtuous gentle- 
man, one Mr. Armigil Wade, afterward clerk of the Counsailles to 
King Henry the 8th, and King Edward the 6th, father to the wor- 
shipful Mr. William Wade, now clerke of the Privie Counsell ; Mr. 
Oliver Dawbeney, Merchant of London ; Mr. Joy, afterward 

{y) Butts must have been very young at the time of the vo3-age, 
probably a student of law or articled to an attorney. As to his father, 
Sir WiUiam Butts, see Dictionary of National Biograp/iy. 



Famous English Wades. 79 

gentleman of the King's Chappell, with divers others of good ac- 
count. 

"The whole number that went in the two tall ships aforesaid, to 
wit, the Triuitv and the Minion, were about six score persons, 
whereof thirty were gentlemen, which all were mustered in warlike 
manner at Gravesend, and after the receiving of the sacrament 
they embarked themselves in the end of April, 1536. 

" From the time of their setting out from Gravesend, they were 
very long at sea, to wit, about two months, and never touched any 
land until they came to part of the West Indies about Cape Bre- 
ton, shaping their course thence northeastwards, until they came 
to the island of Penguin, (s) which is \'ery full of rocks and stones, 
whereon they went and found it full of great fowls, white and 
grey, as big as geese, and they saw infinite numbers of their 
eggs. They drove a great number of the fowls into their boats 
upon their sails and took many of their eggs : the fowls that 
they flayed, and their skins were very like honey combs full of 
holes, being flayed off. They dressed them and found them to be 
ver}' good and nourishing meat. They also saw store of hares, 
both black and white, of whom they killed some and took them 
for no bad food. 

" Mr. Oliver Dawbeney, which, (as it is before mentioned), was 
in this voyage, and in the Minion, told me, Richard Hakluyt, of 
the Middle Temple, these things following, to wit : — That after 
their arrival in Newfoundland, and having been there certain days 
at anchor, and not having yet seen any of the natural people of 
the countr)', the same Dawbeney walking one day on the hatches 
spied a boat with savages of those parts rowing clown the bay 
toward them to gaze upon the ship and our people ; and taking 
view of their coming aloft, he called to such as were under the 
hatches and willed them to come up if they would see the natural 
people of the country that they had so long and so much desired 
to see, whereupon they came up and took view of the savages 
rowing toward them and their ship, and upon the view they 
manned out a ship boat to meet them and to take them. But 
they, spying our ship boat making towards them, returned with 

{z) Penguins were of course great auks, the aica impennis of the or- 
nithologist. (^QQ Memorial Histoi-y of Boston, vol. I, pp. 12-13). 



8o The Wade Genealogy. 

main force and fled into an island that lay up in the bay or river 
there ; and our men pursued them into the island, and the sav- 
ages fled and escaped, but our men found a fire and the side of a 
bear on a wooden spit left at the same by the savages that were 
fled. 

" There in the same place they found a boot of leather gar- 
nished on the outward side of the calf with certain brave trails, 
as it were, of raw silk, and also found a certain great warm mit- 
ten, and these carried with them, they returned to the ship, nor 
seeing anything else besides the soil, and the things growing in 
the same, which chiefly were store of fir and pine trees. 

" And further the said Mr. Dawbeney told him, that lying there 
they grew into great want of victuals, and that they found small 
relief, more than they had from the nest of an osprey, that 
brought them hourly to her young great plenty of divers sorts of 
fishes. But such was the famine that increased among them 
from day to day that they were forced to relieve themselves of 
raw herbs and roots that they sought on the main ; but the famine 
increasing, and the relief of herbs being to little purpose to satisfy 
their insatiable hunger, in the fields and deserts here and there, 
the fellow killed his mate while he stooped to take up a root for 
his relief, and cutting out pieces of his body whom he had mur- 
dered, broiled the same on the coals and greedily devoured 
them. 

" By this means the company decreased and the officers knew 
not what had become of them ; and it fortuned that one of the 
company, driven with hunger to seek abroad for relief, found out 
in the fields the savor of broiled flesh, and fell out with one for 
that he would suffer him and his fellows to starve, enjoying plenty 
as he thought ; and this matter growing to cruel speeches, he that 
had the broiled meat burst out with these words : ' If thou 
wouldst need know, the broiled meat that I had was a piece of 
such a man's buttock.' The report of this brought to the ship, the 
captain found what became of those that were missing, and was 
persuaded that some of them were neither devoured with wild 
beasts, nor yet destroyed with savages ; and hereupon he stood 
up and made a notable oration, containing how much these deal- 
ings offended the Almighty, and vouched the scriptures from first 



Famous English Wades. 8i 

to last, what God had in cases of distress done for them tliat called 
upon Him, and told them that the power of the Almighty was then 
no less than in all former time it had been, and added, that if it 
had not pleased God to have helped them in that distress, that it 
had been better to have perished in body and to have lived ever- 
lastingly, than to have relieved for a poor time their mortal bodies 
and to be condemned everlastingly, both body and soul, to the 
unquenchable tire of Hell. And thus, having ended to that ef- 
fect, he began to exhort to repentance, and besought all the com- 
pany to pray, that it might please God to look upon their present 
miserable state and for his own mercy to relieve the same. The 
famine increasing, and the inconvenience of the men being miss- 
ing being found, they agreed among themselves rather than that 
all should perish, to cast lots who should be killed : and such was 
the mercy of God that the same night there arrived a French ship 
in that port, well furnished with victual, and such was the policy 
of the English, that they became masters of the same, and chang- 
ing ships and victualling them, they set sail to come to England. 

" In their journey they were so far northwards that they saw 
mighty islands of ice in the summer season, on which were hawks 
and other fowls to rest themselves, being weary of flying over far 
from the main : They also saw certain great white fowls with red 
bills and red legs, somewhat bigger than herons, that they supposed 
to be storks. They arrived at St. Ives in Cornwall about the end 
of October. From there they departed unto a certain castle be- 
longing to Sir John Luttrell, where Mr. Thomas Butts and Mr. 
Rastall and other gentlemen of the voyage were very friendly enter- 
tained : after that they came to the Earl of Bath, and thence to 
Bristol, so to London. Mr. Butts was so changed in the voyage 
with hunger and misery, that Sir William, his father, and my 
Lady, his mother, knew him not to be their son, until they found a 
secret mark which was a wart upon one of his knees, as he told 
me, Richard Hakluyt, of Oxford, himself, to whom I rode two 
hundred miles only to have the whole truth of this voyage from his 
own mouth, as being the only man now alive that was in that dis- 
covery. 

" Certain months after those Frenchmen came into England 
and made complaint to King Henry the Eighth; the King causing 



82 The Wade Genealogy. 

the matter to be examined and finding the great distress of his 
subjects, and the causes of dealing so with the Frencli, was so 
moved with pity that he punished not his own subjects, but of his 
own purse made full and Royal recompense unto the French. 

" In this distress of famine, the English did somewhat relieve 
their vital spirits by drinking at the springs the fresh water out of 
certain wooden cups, out of which they drunk their aqua composi/a 
before." {Hackluyt's J'oyages, Vol. III. pp. 129-131). 

Hakluyt obtained this account of Hore's voyage on the authority 
of his cousin and homonym, Richard Hakluyt of the Inner Tem- 
ple. The start of the expedition is mentioned by Robert Pierce 
Condon in his Hix/oiy 0/ Gravesend, 8vo. London (1843), P- 213. 
See dlso Jeatt el Sebastian Cabot par Harrisse p. 297. 

Hakluyt's statement that Master Hore and his companions 
" were assisted by the King's (Hen. VIII.) favor and good coun- 
tenance " is a sufficient answer to the silly tirade against Henry 
VIII. made by Foster {Northern Voyages, p, 268), and to the dia- 
tribes of Dr. Robertson {Atnerica, book IX.) and Profs. Leslie 
and Jameson, and Hugh Murray {Edinboro Cabinet Library, Vol. I., 
p, 98). Dr. Asher, in his introduction to Henry Hudson, the IWwi- 
gator (p. xcv.) is inclined to ridicule Hore as a lawyer who had 
dabbled in cosmography, and is severe in his strictures on the dar- 
ing act of piracy committed, (see also Kohl's Discovery 0/ Maine, 
pp. 337-340). Be it as it may, exploration seems to have slum- 
bered from Hore's voyage in 1536 until the year 1574. 

To Armigel Waad, as a cultured scholar of the University of 
Cambridge, would have been known that passage in the chorus of 
The Medea of Seneca : — . 

'Venient annis 
Saecula seris, Quibus Oceanus 
Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens 
Pateat tellus, Tethysque novos 
Detegat orbes, nee sit terris 
Ultima Thule.' 

(lines 376-381.) 

which has been called a prophesy of America, and was thus ren- 
dered : 

' time shall in fine out breake 
When Ocean wane shall open euery Realme, 
The wonderitig World at will shall open lye, 



Famous English Wades. 83 

And TYPHIS will some new founde Land suruay. 
Some trauelers shall the Countreys farre escrye, 
Beyond small Thule, knowen furthest at this day.' 

It may have been such words as these which set Armigel Waad's 
soul aflame, filUng hhii with desire to " escr}-e the Countreys 
farre," but certain it is that this adventurous voyage was the first 
important attempt by EngHshmen to reap the fruits of tlie knowl- 
edge gained by Columbus and Cabot. 

Biddle, in his Memoir of Cabot, page 278, refers to this voyage 
made by Armigel Wade as " evidently contemplating an adven- 
turous range of research," though he does not mention the names 
of those taking part in it ; and Alexander Brown, also, in his Gen- 
esis of the United States (vol. I., p. 2), while he considers Sir 
Thomas More's Utopia as the most remarkable publication having 
a bearing on America of Henry VHI.'s reign, in the next sentence 
styles the expedition of Master Robert Hore, in company with 
Armigel Wade and others, " the most notable voyage of discovery 
in the same period." It would be idle at the present day to at- 
tempt to defend the literal accuracy of the inscription on Armigel 
Wade's tomb. He certainly was not the first English explorer of 
America, as the sixteen English sailors in Sebastian Cabot's ves- 
sel were entitled to this appellation, if not the Irishman and 
Englishman who perished at Navidad, in the crew of Columbus. 

Erroneous is it to call Armigel Wade, the English Columbus, 
when we are confronted with the Pri\-y Purse Expense account of 
Henry VII., which under date of Jan. 7, 1502, records the pay- 
ment " To men of Bristol, (Thome and Elliot), that found the Isle, 
;^5." It seems clear, also, that a Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral 
(Albertus de Prato) was a member of an earlier expedition in 
1527, and actually Ijinded on the American continent (Hakluyt, 
III., 129). 

While the inscription may be taken as bombastic eulogy from 
the pen of Sir William Wade, even then there is a curious fact to 
be noted as to the early Wades and their part in exploring 
America. 

Armigel Wade had, as we find from his monument, seventeen 
sons and three daughters. What is more probable than that some 
of these sons took part with the other adventurous spirits of these 



84 The Wade Genealogy. 

clays in the exploration of the mysterious West ? It was an age 
of great deeds and greater daring. Long had the intrepid Mer- 
chant Adventurers of the port of Bristol sought for the fabled 
terrestrial paradise of the isle of Bimini. The earth was full of 
rumors of wondrous lands and the fame of Columbus and the 
Cabots was great indeed. Every simple squire dreamed of 
empires in the hidden west and later, scores followed Gosnold, 
Smith, Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher and the gallant Raleigh in 
quest of Spanish treasure-ships to seize, or auriferous lands to 
conquer. 

Let us look at the facts at Yorktown in Virginia. Here, 
though the land has been harried by Hessian and English invad- 
ers and has suffered severely in the Civil War, the records are 
fortunately in excellent condition. In the county records a Henry 
Wade appears as early as 1646. There is a will of Armiger 
Wade who lived in York county in 1644, and was burgess in 
1657, and the Clerk of the County and Circuit Courts reports the 
frequent occurrence of the names of Armiger Wade, Edward 
Wade, Thomas Wade, William Wade, John Wade, Richard Wade, 
James Wade, Joseph Wade and Mildred Wade. 

These, as surely as human speculation can be correct, 
were descendants of that worthy Armigel Wade of England, who 
was no inconsiderable figure in the history of his own land. 
(See post, Chapter V.) 

Waad is said to have written an account of this voyage which 
was afterwards printed. No such work has been traced. After 
his return the explorer seems to have entered the service of 
Henry VIII. probably as a messenger. In 1540, on the recom- 
mendation of Lord Maltravers, the lord deputy, Waad was pro- 
moted clerk of the council at Calais. He was promoted third clerk 
of the Privy Council at London at Midsummer, 1547, serving at first 
without a regular salary, though he was paid for special services, 
like arresting a Frenchman, (probably Jean Ribauld), when he tried 
to escape to France (^-tc/j P. C, ed. Dasent, 1547-50, pp. 113, 
184). At the meeting of the Privy Council on Sunday, Jan. 15, 
1547, Armigill Wade was directed to deliver certain cancelled 
Letters Patent into the Treasury. On September 22, 1547, he 
was elected Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe, in the 



Famous English Wades. 85 

county of Buckingham. On 17 April, 1548. he began to draw a 
regular salary of fifty marks as third clerk of the council. 

\\'e find that Armigel Wade is referred to by William Patten (/) 
in his Diary of the Expeditio>i inlo Scofhnui (154S), in the following 
encomiastic phrases: — " Though I plainly told ye not, that my 
friend's name was Armigil Wade ; yet we that know the man, his 
good literature, his wit and dexterity in all his doings and mark 
the well couching of his clue, might have a great guess of whose 
spinning the thread were." (See Notes and Queries, April. 1891.) 

At the meeting of the Privy Council on April 16, 154S, the 
salarv of William Hunnvng, one of the clerks of the council, was 
raised from ^20 to ^50, that of Sir Thomas Chaloner, another 
clerk, from ;^ 10 to ;i^4o. and Armigill Wade, "who had served 
syns mydsomer last (for) no manner of fee or interteynement was 
ordered to receive 50 marks fee by the yere." At the council cf 
Feb. 3, 1549. the exchequer had a warrant for 13s. 4d (S3) to Armi- 

(/) William Patten (fl. i54S-i5So\ historian and teller of the Excheq- 
uer, was eldest son and third child of Richard Patten (d. 1536), a cloth- 
worker of London. The father was the son of Richard Patten, of 
Boslow, Derbyshire, and a nephew of William Patten, alias Wayntiete, 
Bishop of Winchester. William's mother, Grace, died before her hus- 
band {Gregsoti Port/. Fragnieiits. pp. 190-4, CJietham Socy. Pub,, 
Ixxxviii, 229). Patten apparently accompanied the expedition into 
Scotland in 154S, and the Earl of Warwick, lieutenant of the host, 
made him "one of the judges of the Jlarshalsey." William Cecil, 
(afterwards Lord Burghley), went with him, and both, according to 
Patten, took notes day by day. 

Patten prepared an account of the expedition for publication and 
obtained some aid from Cecil's diary. The work appeared as '' T/ie 
E.xpedi-L ion into Scotland of the most ivoort her ty fortunate Prince 
Edicard, Bu/ce of Somerset, uncle unto our most noble Sovereign 
Lord ye twinges majestic, Edivard the VI., governor of hys hyghness 
persone, and protectour of hys graces realmes, domitiions and sub- 
jects: made i7i the first year of his majesties most prosperous reign, 
and set out by way of diarie by ]V. Patten, Londoner. Imprinted in 
London the last day of June, in the second year of the reign of Ed- 
ivard I'/." It was reprinted in Dalzell's Fragments of Scottish His- 
tory, Edinburg (179S), and in Arber's English Garner, III, 5i-i=;5, 
(1880). 

In 1550 Patten had a lease of the manor of Stoke Newington, 
repaired the parish church 1563, became one of the tellers of the receipt 
of the Queen's Exchequer at Westminster, receiver general of her 
revenues in the county of York, custumer of London outward, and a 
justice of the peace for Middlesex. His sister Alice, married Armigel 
Waad. By his wife Annie, one of the heiresses of Richard Johnson, of 
Boston, Lincolnshire, Patten had seven children. An engraving of 
Patten by J. Mills is in Robinson's Stoke Newington, p. 28. {Diction- 
ary of National Biography, Vol. 44, p. 50). 



86 The Wade Genealogy. 

gill Wade, clerk of the Counceill for so much delyvered by him to 
oone who the Kinges Majeste useth in speciall service (/. e. a spy.) 
On Feb. 27, 1540, ;^i5o was ordered to be paid to Armigill Wade 
to bee by him delyvered as the Kinges Majestes reward to Senour 
Gaspara Figueredo, Ambassador of the Kinge of Portugal, at the 
departure of him toward the king his master. On March 13, 
1549, the sum of ;^i25 was ordered pa,id to Armigill Wade, to 
be by him delyvered to two gentlemen, Almaynes, (Germans), 
sent to the kinges majeste from the Duke of Brunswick, by way of 
reward. On May 28, 1549, there w-as ordered to be paid to Armi- 
gill Wade ;^7, ($35) for his charges for two severall viages, one made 
to Cantorbwry, thother to Lewys in Sussex about his Majeste's 
speciall affayres. Another payment of 20s, ($5) was made to 
Armigill Wade on Sept. 7, 1549 for jorneys by him made. On 
Nov. 5, 1549, a payment of £i\., ($20) was made to Armigill Wade 
and to the clerkes of the Counsell for paper, pen and ynk for this 
Hst quarter 50s, (S12.50). On March 27, 1550, the sum of 
^1050 was ordered to be paid to Sir Thomas Chaloner, knight, 
and Armigill Wade, esquier, to be by them employed for the pay- 
mentes and rewardes of straungers. (/. e. the foreign spies.) On 
July 17, 1550, Armigill Wade was sent to the French Ambassador 
(in London), with an answer touching the four points of his re- 
quest. On Nov. 16, 1550, the sum of ;^i5o was paid to Aermigill 
Wade for special service. On Nov. 19, 1550, an order was made by 

the Lords of the Privy Council "that Armigill Wade, Winter, 

of the Admyralte and such oone merchaunt as they will call unto 
them shall understande the case of Domingo and make report. 
On Feb. 24, 1551-2, the sum oi £\z^o was ordered paid to Armi- 
gill Wade for the King's Majestes use. On March 15, 155 1-2. a 
warrant was ordered issued to Mr. Waade, one of the clerkes, to 
deliver to Flod of the garde ;^5.5.9. for the borde of John Rybald, 
(Jean Ribault, a Frenchman), who was prisoner in his howse. On 
June 21. 155 1, a warrant was ordered issued to Mr. Armagill 
Wade to pay ;^4 to Barthilimewe Willock, for bringing letters from 
the Lord Marques Dorset and returning agayn. On July 29, 1551, 
a letter was written to Armigill Wade to repare to the Fmperor's 
Ambassador with answere to his articles and to prepare himself to 
attende here. On Dec. 20, 155 i. Sir John Mason and Mr. Armi- 



Famous English Wades. ' 87 

gill Wade were commanded to search Tunstall, the Bishop of 
Durham's lodging, (on his committal to the Tower), and to take an 
inventory of all his goodes there. 

In April, 1551, Waad brought certain accusations against the 
Countess of Sussex, and on April 14, 1552, the Privy Council, 
sent a letter to Hobby and the Lieutenant of the Tower that they, 
with Armigill Waade, should examine the Countess of Sussex upon 
articles delivered unto them by the said Armigill Waad. On 
April 24 , 1552, a warrant was ordered issued to Mr. Waad to pay 
Edward Barwick for a journey to Scotland and back, ^17.15.8. 
On May 9, 1552, another warrant was issued by the Privy Council 
to Armigill Waad to pay Benjamin Jonstone ;^7o5. iis. ood. On 
May 9, 1552, Mr. Judde, Mayor of the Staple, was directed to pay 
Mr. Waade £800 " for the King's Majesty's affairs." On May 
26, 1552, a letter was written by the Privy Council to the 
Chancellor of the Augmentations '' to make out a booke 
unto Armigill Waade and Barnard Hampton, Clerkes of 
the King's Majesty's Privy Council, of his highness gifte 
of Trinitie Church in York, with all manner the tymber, bells, 
glasse, stone and other things to the same church belonging." 
Under date of May 30. 1552, a letter was sent to the Lieutenant 
of the Tower •• to suffer Mr Waade, in his presence, to spake with 
the Lorde Paget, who must signe a book sent by the sa}'d Mr. 
Waade." On Oct. 24, 1552, a warrant was issued "to Mr. Waade 
to pay Jeffray Harrison, Bailiff of Westminster, ;^2o for borde of 
prisoners." 

The rise of this Yorkshire man was fairly rapid, for 
in 1552 he had risen to be chief clerk, in which capacity he was 
paid ^50 per year. The last mention of Armigil Waad as clerk 
to the Privy Council occurs on 13 June. 1553, and there can be 
little doubt that he lost his office on Queen Mary's accession. He 
also lost his seat in Parliament, and possibly a post in the Cus- 
toms which he had bought, and of which, as he subsequently com- 
plained to Cecil, he was deprived without compensation. In 1554 
he was, however, granted by the crown the manor of Milton 
Grange, Oxfordshire (Originalia Rolls, \o\. 58, p. 3). He also 
acquired lands in Kentish Town and at Lydd, Kent, and sub- 
sequently leased Belsize, Hampstead, which he made his home, 



88 The Wade GenealoCxY. 

from the dean and chapter of St. Paul's. In December, 1555, he 
was summoned to account for ^800, which, from the foregoing ex- 
tracts, it seems clear he had lawfully expended on warrants. 
Froude, the historian of England, (VIII. 20) under date of Decem- 
ber, 1558, quotes from Armigel's Wade's pamphlet, " On the Dis- 
tresses of the Commonwealtli. The author advised " wary hand- 
ling " ; " The Catholics were in the majority in every county in 
England except Middlesex and Kent ; " " The Pope was a dan- 
gerous enemy " ; " theological intolerance was not found by exper- 
ience to produce healthy convictions ; " " glasses with small necks, 
if liquor was poured into them suddenly and violently, would not 
be so filled, but would refuse to receive it." (Domestic MS., Eliza- 
beth, Vol. I.). 

It was a brave mind of a bold statesmen that could think thus 
manfully in days when religious intolerance vied for supremacy 
with the divine right of absolute monarchy, and the man who 
wrote thus was no small figure in Elizabethan England's foreign 
and domestic policy. 

This pamphlet, calendered as '• an elaborate paper," and en- 
dorsed " The Distresses of the Commonwealth with ye meanes to 
remedy them, A. Wade," is preserved in the State Paper Office, 
1558, No. 66. It will probably be printed in an appendix to the 
present work. Waad does not appear to have been restored to 
the clerkship of the council on the accession of Elizabeth ; but on 
15 April, 1559, he was sent on a mission to the Duke of Holstein. 
His instructions read as follows : 

April 15, 1559. No. 542. — Embassy to the Duke of Holstein. " In- 
structions given to Armigill Wade, Esq., being sent to the Duke 
of Hoist, by the Queen. 

1. He shall repair to Holsatia, and at his arrival at Hewsen, and 
afterwards at Kiel, lying upon the east seas of the said Dukedom of 
Holsatia, shall cause William Earle, servant to Sir William Garrett, 
Alderman of London, to procure him access to the Duke. This ob- 
tained, he shall commune with him or his council in the matter of 
traffic for the resort of the English merchants into his countries, con- 
ferring with him upon the aptness and commodities of the ports to 
which they may resort with their wares, what privileges shall be 
granted them, taking care not to bind her to any conclusion. 

2. He shall learn, by the secretest and indirectest way that he can 
devise, what doings, liberties and privileges, they have or had, in the 
countries of Sweden, Denmark and Holstein, in what state and times 
they stand there this day, herein groping the Duke, (fan quant aliud 
agens), so as to feel whether he would be induced to break through 



Famous English Wades. 89 

them, and so handle the business, as to provoke him to use them in 
such sort as has been done here, declaring to him the reasonable 
ofifers made unto them, which they do not accept or embrace. 

3. He shall further learn, by the means aforesaid, how the States 
seem to take their handling, and what rumours spread there touching 
their discontentation or what they may or do practise secretly or 
■openly, for the stay or couiage of our determinations here against 
them. 

4. By the means aforesaid he shall learn of what religion the Duke 
is, and if he is of the religion of the Protestants, he may introduce mat- 
ters of communication of religion ; declaring that, by the goodness of 
God and her, this realm embraces the religion set forth in the confes- 
sion of Augusta, (? Augsberg), agreeable to which the King of Den- 
mark, Sweden and other princes of Germany receive ; and that the 
Duke not abhoring from the same, it were meet that there were 
between England and him some further intelligence for the mainten- 
ance of the said Confession, and for the repressing of the attempts of 
the States for the recovery of the said liberties. In all these things he 
shall use himself so warily as it may seem these things pass from him- 
self ; giving as it were some inkling of hope, but so as in nowise to 
charge or tie the Queen. 

5. In the meantime, he shall cause William Earle to bargain for a mass 
of bullion in the dollar and tine silver, proceeding in the same bargain 
himself under or up to 100,000/, not exceeding 8 per cent, interest for 
the whole. In the handling hereof he shall not show that he is hei 
minister, nor produce her warrant to treat herein unless the cause 
be urgent. 

These instructions are preserved in the Harleian and Sloane 
MSS. in the British Museum (Harl. MSS. 36, fol. 75 ; Sloane 
MSS. 31, p. 128). Waad carried also a letter from Queen 
Elizabeth to the Duke of Holstein, stating that she had re- 
ceived his letters addressed to her late sister, Queen Mary, 
whose death had occurred before the arrival of his messenger. 
These letters mention the Duke's intention to select some port 
within his dominions tit for the importation and exportation of 
merchandise, and the extension of commerce between their two 
realms. The project has her concurrence, and she has so in- 
formed her messenger. In furtherance of the same object she 
sent her servant, Armigill Wade, who would further inform him 
of her intentions in this matter and for whom she asks credit. 

On July 8, 1559, the Duke of Holstein writes from Rensburg to 
Queen Elizabeth acknowledging the receipt of her letters sent by 
Armigilius Waden, and on July 31 he writes from GoUdorp to Sir 
William Cecil thanking Queen Elizabeth for having sent Armigil- 
ius Wade to him as her envoy, by whom he despatches these 
letters. An English family record tells us that Armygell Wade 



90 The Wade Genealogy. 

was godfather to Elizabeth Roberts, born at Neasdon, Middle- 
sex, Jan, 12, 1560. 

It was an age of speculation and the alchemists flourished or 
fell into the dungeons of the Tower of London. The State papers 
shew Waad's dealings with one Paul Cypraeus, who, under date 
of Januarj' 25, 1561, writes from Bielsano (Belsize, Mr. Waad's 
house) to Sir William Cecil that he is encouraged by Mr. Waad to 
address him, and assures him of his great respect for him and his 
devotion to his service. 

In addition to his public duties, Waad seems to have busied 
himself in behalf of Sir William Cecil's domestic affairs. Under 
date of March i, 1561, he writes from Belsize to Cecil, describ- 
ing Mr. Vaughan's house. Has given orders to Cecil's gardeners 
as directed. He also recommended a person for the works at 
Dover or Sandwich, who has a new method of excavating. And 
again on March 7, 1561, we find him writing to Sir William Cecil 
that the gardener at Greenwich will provide Cecil with all that he 
can. He recommends that lavendar, spike, hissop, thyme, rose- 
mary and sage be sent for. If more is necessary, then to send to 
Hampton Court or Richmond. In June, 1562, Waad was sent 
to Rye to muster six hundred men for service at Havre, and to 
collect information about the movements of French parties and the 
readiness of the Huguenots to accept English help. He writes from 
Rye on June 18, 1562, to the Lord Admiral, detailing his proceed- 
ings in surveying the watercourses between Newenden and Rye, 
with the view of improving Rye Harbor. But the most interesting 
letter from this Elizabethan worthy comes from American custody. 
In the Hardwicke MSS. in the Lenox Branch of the New York 
Public Library, is a copy verbatim of Armigel Waad's letter to 
Secretary Cecil from Rye on June 25, 1562. Its quaint diction is 
as follows : 



May it like your Honor to be advertised that the Captain 
of Dieppe having received by Rockard (of whose sending to 
Dieppe I wrote to your Honor the 19th of this present) 
the commendations that I did send into him, hath by the 
same Rockard thanked me most heartily for the same; and 
for News certain, hath sent me now, that the 17th of this 
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General Washington's first letter on Arnold's treason. Written by 
Alexander Hamilton and signed by General Washington, addressed to 
Colonel Nathaniel Wade. (From the original in the possession of Col. 
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PATRICK H. WADE. 



Famous English Wades. 91 

Orleans with a thousand horsemen and 3 thousand footmen, 
whereof the Pr. of Conde having intelUgence, made out of 
Orleans, met with him, and slew 8 hundred horsemen, iioo 
Footmen, slew also the Marshal St. Andree, took the Grand 
Prior and Monsr. Danville; the D. of Guise receiving 3 or 4 
coups of the Harquebut upon his breast, which pierced not, 
by reason of the goodness of his harness; was nevertheless 
shot through the thigh with a Pellet. Whereupon he retiring 
to his camp did immediately send for his brother U'aumale 
to Roan, who marcheth toward him. 

This note Rockard received in writing from the Captain's 
mouth. He saith also, that at the same conflict the Con- 
stable's son was also taken, who was immediately and secretly 
discharged and enlarged; whereby it is gathered, that the 
Pr: of Conde should have some secret intelligence with him. 

Tomorrow, if the weather be fair, the Diepois intend to 
give the assay again to Aix ; for which purpose, they propose 
to carry with them 7 Pieces of Batter)-. 

They have fortified St. Nicholas Hill wonderfully for the 
shortness of the time, so as it is now^ thought to be tenable. 
The same is the hill, that standeth west from the Town to- 
ward Newhaven. Pellet Hill standing on the other side they 
meddle not withal, from which hill the enemy may rather 
annoy the Town with beating, than battery or approach. 

In Paris the Papists do now only reign having expelled out 
of the Town all the Protestants and possessed themselves 
of their Houses and goods. 

As the present state of things be, for that my being here 
is to small purpose, I intended to depart and return (God 
willing) tomorrow toward the Court, if this night Peter Adrian 
return not, or that I do not receive contrary word from your 
Honor. 

Surely, Sir, what report soever j\ made, you shall well 
perceive at my coming, that there : was no such mean- 
ing in those parts, especially at /\ not ,/\/\ 

As for /\ there is none account to be made of it for the 



—purpose, both because it Sy and for that it- 

so far within the as it cannot be 

And /\ and /\/\ are so stout, as they for the present 

will hear of no . I think your Honor shall perceive 

that the best way to work with them for the beginning will be, 
that, same, that I did simply touch in my letter sent by Peter 
Adrian ; and it must be time and some further adversity, 
than they have yet suffered, must bring them to it ; The 
which must be watched for bv some handsome man, of some 



92 The Wade Genealogy. 

acquaintance with the / <C /\ that may from time to time, 
as occasions shall happen, and serve stir up some talk meet 
for the purpose : In which behalf for the causes allegded in 
my other Letters, I do judge none more fit than Peter Adrian. 
I do as yet hear no news either from ''^T' or from my 
man, that I set unto him, which maketh me ; to fear that 
all is not well. 

Thus Jesus preserve your Honor. 
At Rye the 25th of June, 1562. 

Your Honor's to be by you commanded with all my 
heart and service. 

Ar Waade. 
(Vol. 7, Hardwicke MSS. 436-439.) 

The compiler's thanks are clue to the New York Public Library 
(Lenox branch), for permission to transcribe this curious docu- 
ment which shows the confidental relationship between Armigel 

Waad and Secretary Cecil, and the quaint cypher as regards their 
spies. 

Under date of September 18, 1562, Queen Elizabeth's instruc- 
tions to Armigel Waad at Rye are preserved in the State Paper 
Office. He was ordered to take the musters of 600 soldiers at 
Rye, to be transported under command of Edward Ormesby, for 
service beyond sea. Under date of September 23, 1562, he re- 
ceived similar instructions as to soldiers for service at Dieppe, 
this document bearing on the face of it, corrections in Secretary 
Cecil's handwriting. On September 26 Queen Elizabeth wrote to 
Sir Maurys Denys to make certain payments for a pro\ost 
marshal, and for officers under him ; and also to Armigill Waad, 
paymaster at Rye, and 2 s. per diem for his clerk. There is still 
preserved in the English Record Office under date of September 
28, 1562, an indenture of the armour, weapons, and munitions left 
in the charge of the Mayor of Rye by Armigill Waad, for the 
Queen's service. Waad, like a true Yorkshireman, seems ever to 
have kept an eye open for the main chance and for his own bene- 
fit. Accordingly, in December, 1562, he requested a grant of the 
salt marshes between Lydd and the mouth of the Camber, with 
license to enclose them. 

That he was an extensive landowner appears from the feet of 
Fines for the county of Middlesex. At Michaelmas 4 and 5 Eliza- 
beth (i. e., A. D. 1562), he and Anne (Merbur)'), his wife, con- 



Famous English Wades. 93 

veyed lands in Kentyshtowne, St. Pancras and Hampstede, and in 
the following year, at Easter, Armigel Wade and his wife are 
parties to a fine with Sir William Cecil, Knight, Chief Secretary 
of the Queen, relating to premises in Kentyshtowne, Paddington 
and Hampstede, in the parish of So. Pancras. Jones' Index to 
the Recorch, 7 Elizabeth (i. e., 1565), roll 167, also refers to him 
as dealing with property at Lydd Promehill, in the county of 
Kent. 

On October 15, 1562, he writes from Rye to Secretary Cecil, 
with a muster of soldiers arrived under charge of Mr. Walgrave, 
that he ordered an account to be made of the armour remaining 
in Rye ; which has given offence, as interfering with the privileges 
of the Lord Warden (of the Cinque Ports). And again on Octo- 
ber 16 he writes to Secretary Cecil that Mr. Walgrave has sent 
one to London to make provision of armour, etc. That some of 
the band of Sir Maurys Denys have arrived, as to Mr. Winter's 
return from Dieppe being expected, and gives his opinion on the 
expedition to Newhaven. By the end of October his duties at 
Rye were at an end, for on the 31st John Young, Mayor of Rye, 
writes to Secretary Cecil that Mr. Waad had departed for London, 
and reporting news from Dieppe that all the captains and their 
forces were shipped for Newhaven, and that there had been great 
loss of English and Scots at Rouen. In November, 1562, Armi- 
gel Waad filed his account of receipts and disbursements when 
sent to Rye, by virtue of the Queen's letters, and of payments 
made to Sir Maurys Denys, Treasurer of the Garrisons in Nor- 
mandy. An evidence of Armigel Waad's linguistic attainments 
exists in a letter preserved in the Record office from Challoner to 
Secretary Cecil. Under date of March 30, 1563, and in relation 
to two Spanish papers Challoner advises that " Mr. Hampton or 
Mr. Armigil Wade, so sufficient Castilians, shall well trans- 
late it." 

Waad was scientific for those days. Indeed an English genealo- 
gist has not hesistated to describe him as " probably the most 
learned Englishman of his day." A linguist of considerable at- 
tainments we know he was from his missions. We also find he 
he was an inventor, for on January 25, 1565, according to Rviiier's 
Feeder a, /. 805, a license was issued to Armigil Wade and William 



94 The Wade Genealogy. 

Herlle, authorizing them to manufacture sulphur and oil by a 
method which they had invented. 

The next entries of record concerning Waad are of quaint in- 
terest. It seems that one, Cornelius de Alneto, or De Lannoy, 
who signs himself " Philosophie et Jatromathematices Doctor," had 
come into England and had evolved a wonderous scheme for mak- 
ing gold. Elizabeth, as grasping as all the Tudors, agreed to find the 
materials and Cornelius de Lannoy agreed to make the gold. The 
correspondence is amusing, but the alchemist soon got into dur- 
ance vile. Some curious letters are preserved in the MSS. of the 
Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, England. Under date 
of Eebruary 15, 1565, Waad writes to Secretary Cecil from Somer- 
set Place, London : 

" Mr. Cornelius is presently about to write to the Queen. He 
seems more and more to take to heart this lately discovered act, 
and can by no means abide West, " the sight of whom stirreth up 
his colere." Is himself also much disliked by Cornelius, notwith- 
standing his complaisance to him. Sees every day more and more 
that this proceeds from their next neighbors. Yesterday Cornelius 
was with her (the Princess Cecilia of Sweden), and to-day, in the 
company of Montagna, meeteth her and her chaplin in accustomed 
place, namely, " at the Red Bull, beyond the Stylyard in Teme- 
strete." His treaty with her (as Montagna says) is to get himself 
out of the country with all convenient speed, for which purpose 
he intends to offer the Queen a sum of money to let him off his 
first bargain, and this is the sum of their conferences. Prays Ce- 
cil for God's sake to get him despatched, so that there may be no 
more reason to trust or make use of him, for he will undoubtedly 
deceive them. To satisfy Cornelius, it were not amiss that West 
should be ordered for the present to confine himself to the gallery 
where he frequently lieth, while seeming to undergo some penance, 
he might keep a strict watch on all Cornelius's movements." 

Waad writes on February 17 to Cecil "Concerning alleged 
malpractices by Cornelius de Alneto, and his obstinate behaviour 
under detention. Asks that he may be confronted by Montagna, 
and that the whole of the circumstances may be declared by the 
latter before his face for otherwise he maketh light of the whole 
aft'air." 

He evidently made matters uncomfortable, to say the least of it, 
for the alchemist for Cornelius de Alneto writes to Sir William 



Famous English Wades. 95 

Cecil on February 22 complaining "of the restraint to which he is 
subjected in not being allowed to go forth unless accompanied by 
Armigil Wade." 

On February 24 Waad writes to Sir William Cecil sending him 
by Signor Montagna "the copy of Cornelius' letter to the preacher, 
(Olaf), and the translation of his letter to the Lady Cecilia. 
Whatsoever happen Cornelius will say that he hath kept troth, 
for his promise and oath was that he would not speak with my 
lady nor none of her folks. It seems that his promise did not 
extend to writing." 

On March 15 Armagil Waad reports to Sir William Cecil the 
substance of a conversation between himself and Cornelius de 
Alneto on the subject of the latter holding communication with 
the Princess Cecilia and her household. The thrifty Yorkshire- 
man also sent in an offer from " my brother Merbury " to supply. 
French wines for the use of Her Majesty's household at 20 nobles 
the tun. 

The alchemist evidently soon desired to seek a kinder patron, 
for on March 23 Waad writes to Sir William Cecil stating at 
length his reasons for suspecting that Cornelius de Alneto is 
about to lea\'e the country, and suggesting various grounds on 
which he might be justly detained, such as his failing to perform 
his promises to her majesty within the given time, etc. 

How carefully Waad watched the luckless alchemist, appears 
from his letter to Sir William Cecil of March 7. Writing from 
Somerset Place, he says that a certain person, (clearly Cornelius de 
Lannoy), has arranged the plan of his departure. Waad sends 
particulars as to the medecine or elixir he carries with him and 
proposes his arrest. He also writes as to the irons for casting 
ingots and other things for projection he takes with him. The 
alchemist seems to have been a man of many inventions, for on 
August 7, 1565, Waad writes from his house at Belsize to Sir 
William Cecil, detailing the progress of the manufacture of glass 
and pottery under Cornelius de Lannoy, relating the clumsiness 
■of the English glassmakers and recommending the suits of Henrie 
Liteshowe, Mr. Prestoll and William Herle. He also incloses a 
note of payments made by Arm. Waad to Cornelius de Lannoy 
■on account of the glassworks. 



96 The Wade Genealogy. 

But the fortune of this Edison in advance of his age speedily- 
suffered a reverse. As did many anotlier, he saw the inside of a 
dungeon in the Tower of London." On July 15, 1566, Armigel 
Waad writes from Belsize to Sir William Cecil, that he has repaired 
to the Tower and examined Mr. Cornelius (Lannoy ?), as to delay 
in assays of metals, etc., and sending particulars of the conversa- 
tion which took place. Things began to get interesting for the 
alchemist by July 29, 1566, for then Armigil Waad writes to the 
Earl of Leicester and Sir William Cecil, that the Lieutenant of the 
Tower has shown him the letter inclosed, whereof he explains the 
meaning of a passage. Cornelius (de Lannoy) has greatly abused 
the Queen. Waad inclosed a letter in Latin, from Cornelius de 
Lannoy to Leicester and Cecil, in which he enters into a long ex- 
planation of his proceedings and begs for mercy from the Queen, 
acknowledging his delinquency. How pitiful was the condition of 
this charlatan appears from two more of his letters, preserved in 
the State paper office. Under date of August 3, 1566, from the 
Tower of London, there is a declaration by Cornelius de Lannoy 
that if it shall please the Queen to release him from confinement 
he will without delay put in operation that wonderful elixir for 
making gold for her Majesty's service. The letter is in Latin and 
is followed by another appeal dated August 13, and addressed to 
the Earl of Leicester and Sir William Cecil. 

The only result of his appeal seems to have been a permission 
(or order), to continue his experiments, for on August 26, 1566, 
Sir Francis Jobson, Lieutenant of the Tower, (another Yorkshire 
man), and Armigel Waad write to Secretary Cecil that they have 
conferred with Cornelius (de Lannoy) on the subject of his letter, 
and they forward requisitions made by him for carrying on his al- 
chemical operations, for which a small sum of money will be re- 
quired. There seems to have been some small show of success, 
for on May 28, 1567, Waad writes to Secretary Cecil that he has 
taken order for keeping back all boats on the Thames, and for 
bringing Cor. (Cornelius de Lannoy), to court to-morrow. Waad 
describes the personal manner of his captive in detail. Waad's 
last letter in the State papers is dated shortly before his death and 
is addressed to Secretary Cecil in favor of Mr. (Philip) Cockeram, 
soliciting that time may be granted to him for the payment of his 

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debt to the Queen, he having been deprived of his place in 
the Customs, which he had purchased for a large sum. He 
inveighed against the evils of such a system. Besides the 
"Observations" on his travels, attributed to him, Waad 
was the author of: i. 2'he Distresses of the Commonwealth., 
With the Means to Remedy Them; an elaborate treatise pre- 
served at the Record Office (Ca/. State Papers, Dom., 1547-80, 
p. 119). 2. Decastichon de reccptione ducis Somerset a Londinensihis, 
London, 1548, 4to. 3. Carmen in Obititni Suffolciensium fra- 
trum, printed in the collection of verses on the death of the 
Dukes of Suffolk in 1552. 

We take up again Park's account in his Hampstead, 
which is about the only connected account of Armigel 
Waad, if we except Mr. A. F. Pollard's recent and able 
article in the Dictionary of National Biography (which was 
founded upon and gives due credit to the present compila- 
tion), and there read as follows; " Having gone through 
life with honor and reputation, he retired to his mansion 
at Belsize {ti) at Hampstead, London. He drew his last 
breath there in June 20th, 1568(6-). Soon after (says Norden, 
Speculum Britanniae, locus Hampstead, page 22), was 'a faire 
monument of alabaster raised on the wall of the chancel in 
Hampstead Church.' with this inscription: 

MEMORIAE SACRUM. 

Optimisetclarissimis parentibus ARMIGELLO WAADO 
e Brigantium antiqua familia oriundo. Hen. VHI. et Ed. 
VI. Regum secretiori consilio ab epistolis; et in agro Mid- 
dlesexiano eirenarchae; qui in maximarum artium disci- 
plinis, prudentiaque civili instructissimus, plurimarum 
linguarum callentissimus, legationibus honoratissimis per- 

(6) Curious indeed are the vicissitudes of property. This very 
mansion of Belsize where Armigel Wade died, came after many years 
in the hands of others, to the possession of Sir Spencer Maryon-Wil- 
son. Baronet, connected by marriage with the family of Wade, and 
to-day is in possession of his descendants, related on the mother's 
side to Wades, who claim, with some certainty, to be descendants of 
Armigel, the English Cohimbus. 

(c) Sir William Wade gives the exact hour of his father's death in 
an entry in Eberus' Calendar, stating that his father died at 4 o'clock 
in the afternoon and without a struggle, and that he was buried in 
the church at Hampstead {Rawlinson MS., Bodleian Library). 

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functus et inter Britannos Indiarum Americanum explora- 
tor primus. Ex duabus conjugibus, Alicia Patencia et 
Anna Merburia, 20 liberos piogenuit, tandemque, post 
vitam honorifice et pientissune defunctam, anno virginei 
partus. 1568, mensis Junii die 20 in Domino placide obdor- 
muit, Et ALICIAE "PATENCIAE quae patri 17 liberos 
peperit, e quibus duo viri et tres femellae adhiic in vivis 
existunt, quae vita castissime et temperatissime transacta, 
anno salutis humanae 1568 animam pientissimam Redemp- 
tori reddidit. GULIEMUS WAADUS, filius maximus 
natu, et haeres, idemque divse Elizabethae Reginae concillio 
secretiori ab epistolis, hoc monumentum posuit. 

which may be rendered into English about as follows: 

" Sacred to the memory of Armigel Waad, the best and 
most kind of parents, a descendant of an ancient Yorkshire 
family, Secretary of the Privy Council of Henry VIII. and 
Edward VI., and a Justice of the Peace for the County 
of Middlesex, who, proficient in very many of the most 
important arts, excellently versed in civil jurisprudence, 
very familiar with many languages, discharged divers most 
honorable embassies and was the first English explorer of 
the Indies of A.merica. By his two wives, Alice Patten and 
Anne Marbury, {d) he gave to the world twenty children, 
and after a life honorably and most conscientiously passed, 
died in the spring of the year 1568, when on the 20th day 
of June he placidly fell asleep in the Lord. And to Alice 
Patten, who bore to her husband seventeen children, of 
whom two sons and three daughters at present survive, 
who, having lived her life most chastely and piously, re- 
turned her soul to her Creator in the year of our Lord 1568. 
William Waad, the eldest son and heir, and also Secretary of 
the Lady Elizabeth's Privy Council, has erected this monu- 
ment." 

Lysons, in \\\s> Environs of London, \o\. II., p. 532, falls 
into the error of calling Armigel Waad a knight, and as 
erroneously states that Sir William Waad was buried at 
Hampstead. He says that the parish registers do not men- 
tion either burial, but do contain baptisms and burials of 
several children of Armigel and William Waad. He 
records in the churchyard a tomb of Abigail, wife of John 

[d] Anne Marbury's mother was Agnes, daughter of Lynne 

of Northampton. (See Visitation of London in 1568, Harleian So- 
ciety Publications, Vol. I, p. 51). 



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Whorwood, Esquire, of Stourton Castle, and daughter of Sir 
William Waad, with the date worn off. 

Unfortunate!}', Hampstead Church was entirely rebuilt 
in 1745, and has been since that date, twice restored 
and enlarged. At the hands of the iconoclastic restorer 
this " faire alabaster monument " has disappeared. Nor 
do the church registers, which commence in 1560, afford 
any material assistance as to the genealog}^ of these 
Wades. Writing to the compiler as recently as March 24, 
1896, the Reverend Sherard Burnaby, vicar of the parish, 
states that there are no entries in the baptismal registers 
of the name Wade or Waad. 

A further and extremely probable solution of Armigel 
Waad's unusual christian name is to be gathered from 
the appendix to Lower's Patronymica Britannica. He defines 
Armigill as an ancient Teutonic personal name, formerly 
Hermengild, and says that the Roman Catholic Church 
honors a confessor called Armagill on August 16. It is 
possible, therefore, that our ancestral hero, born in an age 
when Catholicism, was the state religion of England, in a 
district where the monks were the principal landowners, 
saw the light on August 16, and was named in honor of the 
Romish confessor. 

Armigel Waad's will was undated. It describes him as 
of ' Belsis in Hampsted, Middlesex, Esquire.' In it he 
desires to be buried "in the chancell of Hampsted church, 
so nye to my late wife as may be." He devised to his son, 
Thomas Waad, ' his land and house at Golding Lane and 
the chamber by him buylded in Graye's Inn.' To his son 
William he devised 'his leases of Belsye and Lavenden ^ 
and his rectory of Horton Kirby in the County of Kent.' 
His will mentions his daughter, Joyce; his godson, Armigill 
Cockaram; and his wife's daughters, Anne and Judithe 
Bradley. He disinherited his daughter Ann, "for her dis- 
obediencies sake." Mr. Justice Southcott, Mr. Wilbrame, 
and his son, Robert Jones, were appointed overseers. The 
will was proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop 
of Canterbury, Feb. 5, 1569-70, by William Waad, the son 



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and executor, and is to be found recorded in Register 6 
Lyon, in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of 
the High Court of Justice, at Somerset House, Strand, 
London. 

Sir William Waad seems to have had the usual troubles 
of an executor and to have become involved in law suits 
w^ith the Philip Cockeram mentioned in his father's will. 
Under August, 1568, he entered in his copy of Eberus' 
Calendar^ and in Latin, "that he was despoiled of his patri- 
mony and put out of the possession of Belsize House by 
authority of the Court of Exchequer, and thus most 
iniquitously robbed by Philip Cockeram, citizen of Lon- 
don." Thomas Rawlinson, who copied Sir William Waad's 
notes, says of them, "falling upon Pauli Eberi Caiendarium, 
which was Sir Wylliam Waad's' Lieutenant of the Tower, 
in spare parts of the leaves left on purpose by Eberus, I 
find these notes: 'Upon Martin's Day I was restored to 
the possession of my father's estate of Belsize.' " [Rawlin- 
sofi MS. D., 1160, fo. 61-3, in the Bodleian Library, Uni- 
versity of Oxford, and by the kind courtesy of the Rev'd. 
Dr. Macray, F. S. A). In the British Record Office are 
traces of this litigation. Under August, 1568, is preserved 
'* a declaration by William Wade of the sinister dealing of 
Mr. Cockerham towards him, before and after the death of 
Mr. Wade's father," and another document dated March 
27, 157 1, endorsed by Lord Burghley, "between William 
Wade and Cockeram," sets forth the state of the debt for 
which Mr. Cockeram stands bound. 

5. Arthur Wade (son of Wade) of Kilnsea, York- 
shire. 

Married :—Wi\za.he\.h (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

26. Christopher Wade, b. about 1591. 
Arthur Wade was buried at Coniston, Yorkshire, 
Oct. 26, 1612. His widow was buried there July 9, 1612. 

9. William Waad (son of Armigel), born 1546; died 25 
Oct., 1623. 




PoBTRAIT AND FAOSIMIIiE AUTOGEAPH OF SiR WlIiLIAM WaAD, KnTGHT. 



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Married: — I, Anne (daughter of Owen Waller); {e) 
married 1586 (Bishop of London's license, Jan. 15, 
1585-6), born about 1570; died 1589. 

Married: — II, Anne (daughter of vSir Humphrey 
Browne), (/) died 1645. 

Issue : 

27. Armigel Waad. Student of Gray's Inn, d. Nov. 4, 

1611, at the Tower, bur. at Hampstead (r/). 

28. James Waad, Student of Gray's Inn, b. 16il. 

29. Armenia Gildea Waad, \li) m. Charles Mordaunt of 

Thuuderly, Essex ( Visitation of Essex in 1665). 

30. Alice Waad, m. Philip Cage of Hormead (/). 

31. Elizabeth Waad, m. Edmund Lenthall. 

32. Mary Waad, m. John Holgate of Saffron Walden, 

Essex; bur. there April 24, 1654 {j ). 

33. Abigail Waad, m. John Whorwood of Stourton 

Castle; bur. at Hampstead [k). 

[e) Owen Waller, citizen and stoekfishmonger of St. Michael, nigh 
Crooke Lane end, London, and Sybton, Suffolk, "where I was born," 
left a will proved in 1576. (Reg. 27, Martyn. P. C. C). Anne Waller, 
his daughter, was born 1571. The Inquisition post mortem as to 
Owen Waller is dated 16, Elizabeth, June 1. Anne Waller of St. 
Alban, Wood Street, London, first wife of Sir William Waad, '* con- 
spicuous in disposition, genius and family," died in the nineteenth 
year of her age, in childbirth, and is buried under a " Fair Marble 
Monument in oval," in the parish of St. Albans, Wood Street, in 
Cripplegate Ward, London. Stow's Surve)/ of London, III. 586, 
gives the inscriplion upon the t imb of Anne Waller, the first wife of 
Sir William Waad, as follows : " Deo Trino k Uno Opt. Max. Sacrum, 
ac Aeternae Memoriae ornatissimae k laudatissimae feminae, Annae 
WAiiiiERiAE in Icenis oriundae, unius atq. unicae parentum prolis. 
Ingenio, Genio ct Genere conspicuae : Gulielmi Waadi, Regii con- 
sistorii sanctiorisque Concilii Sereuissimae Heroinae Dominae Eliz- 
abethae, Angliae, etc., Reginae, a secretis, Conjugis. Quae annos 
enataXIX, inpuerperiocalendas Septembris, annoSalutis Jesu merito 
restitutae, CloIoXIC ex hac peritura ad perennam vitam emigravit. 
Cui Placide in Christo gentis humanae sospitatore obdormienti, hoc 
mortale im mor talis amoris Monumentum conjuxmoestissimusposuit." 
Stow relates that this inscription was on a fair marble mouumeut in 
oval on the right hand of the chancel of St. Albans Church, Wood 
Street, London, and that Sir William Waad's tomb was there with 
many qnarterings on its armorial escutcheon. But Sir William was 
buried at Manuden, Essex, and Anne Waller alone rests there. 

[f) There was some confusion as to Sir William Waad's second wife. 
Waif ord says he married as his second wife, a daughter of Sir Thomas 
Wotton, who, surviving as his widow, left Belsize to her son by her 
first husband, Charles Henry de Kirkhoven. Sir Bernard Burke 
says that Katherine, daughter of Thomas Lord Wotton. married first, 
Henry Lord Stauhojie, secondly, John Poliander Kirckhoven (by 
whom she had a son, Charles Henry Kirckhoven), and thirdly, Colonel 
Daniel O'Neale. 



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Walford's statement, as impuo:ned by Burke, is further rendered 
untrustworthy by 77?e Life of Thomas BushcK (Lord Bacon's ser- 
vant), which states that he married Anne, widow of Sir WilHam Waad, 
Lieutenant of the Tower. This is 8up])orted by the Registers of 
Westminster Atihey (edited by Colonel J. L. Chester), wherein, at 
page 183, we find : " Coll. Bushell buried in the Cloisters, April 24, 
1C74. He was married to Dame Anne, widow of Sir William Waad, 
Lieutenant of the Tower aijd Clerk of the Privy Council, who died 
in 1623. Dame Anne died in 1045. His former wife was Isabell. 
(See the Church Registers of Enstone, Oxfordshire)." 

The monument to the memory of Colonel Daniel O'Neale in Bough- 
ton Malheibe Church, soon disposes of Walford's theory. It was 
erected by the Rt. Honorable the Countess of Chesterfield, his widow. 
He died 1663, aged 60, and she survived him, dying in 1667, whereas 
Anne, widow of Sir William Waad, died in 1645. O'Neale was Ser- 
geant Major in the 14th Regiment of the King's Army, was sent to 
the Tower by the Parliament, escaped in women's clothes, fled to the 
Low Countries, and thence joined the King in the Civil War. He was 
the only Protestant in his family, the famous O'Neales of Ulster, 
and his monument describes him as Postmaster General of England. 
Scotland and Ireland, Master of the Powder and Groome of His 
Majestj^'s Bedchamber. 

[g) Under date of November 4, 1615, Sir William Waad thus wrote 
in his copy of Pauti Eberi Calendarium : " My eldest sonne, Armi- 
gill Waad, a child of great witte. modesty, pyetj^, and discretion 
above his age, decessed at the Tower, aboiit five of the clocke in the 
evening, of age above seven yeares. and is buryed at Hamstead. anno 
Dni 1611." (Rawllnson 3I6'S. in Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. D. 
1160, fos. 61 b-3). 

ih) In his excellent biographical sketch of Sir William Waad in the 
Dictionary of National Biography, "Mr. A. F. Pollard says : ''The 
elaborate flourish Waad gave to his initial W. has been misread as 
W. J. (also William Gildea, s. c. w.), and is printed as W. J. in the 
Acts of the Privy Council, 1588-9, joassiin; if it were not a mistake, 
it would be the earliest instance by more than fifty years of the use 
of a double christian name in England." So be it, as regards Sir 
William Waad, but the biographer, with a transcript of this com- 
piler's notes before him, failed to notice that Sir William Waad's 
daughter w^as clearly entitled to Juvenal's quotation Tanquam habeas 
tria nomina {Satires. V, 127), for in the Msitation of the County of 
Essex in 1665 (pedigree Mordaunt of Thunderly), she is expressly 
described as Armenia Gildoy Wade, and as born about 1620 would 
seem entitled to the distinction of being the first English woman to 
bear a double christian name. There was some reason tor the second 
name, as Sir William Waad is described on his tomb as "Superin- 
tendent of the soldiery in Ireland,'' and Gildea we find from Lower's 
Patronynxlca Britannica is an Irish name and of the blood royal of 
Ireland. 

[i] Philip Cage of Hormead married, first, Elizabeth Thornton of 
Hygham, in the Count}' of Norfolk, by whom he had issue Robert, 
John and Anne. He married secondly, Alice daughter of Sir William 
Waad of Mallendine (Manuden) in Essex. The Bishop of London's 
license for the second marriage is dated December 6, 1621, and names 
the church of Stocking Pelham in the County of Hertford, as the 
place of the marriage (Chester's Marriage Licenses). By the second 



Famous English Wades. 103 

Sir William Waad deserves more extended treatment 
than the limits of a genealogy can afford or accord. He 
was, according to Mr. A. F. Pollard's article in the Diction- 
ary of National Biography^ (which gives due credit to the 
compiler's collections), clerk of the Privy Council, diplo- 
matist, and Lieutenant of the Tower. He received by will, 
one-half of the family property, his father's sons by his 
first wife having predeceased hi n. In 157 1 he was 
admitted a student of Gray's Inn, and a few years later, 
doubtless with a view to entering the service of the gov- 
ernment, he began travelling on the continent. Waad m 
his copy of Eberus' Calendar supplies the exact dates of one 
of his journeys, if not his first one, to France. Under May 
he writes: " I tooke my jorney into Fraunce with Capitayne 
Layton, A. D. 1574, where I remayned thre yeares." Under 
another. May, he enters: " I came out of Fraunce from 
Tours to Greewiche {sic) Ano Dni. 1577 {Rawlinsou MS., 
Bodleian Library). 

In July, 1576, he was residing at Paris, and frequently sup- 
plied political information to Burghley, whose 'servant 'he 
is described as being (cf. Latisdowne MSS. 23, Art. 75). He 
claimed familiar acquaintance with the celebrated French 
publicist, Jean Bodin, from whom he seems to have 
derived some of the news he forwarded to Burghley. In 
the autumn of 1576, Sir Amyas Paulet took Wade to Blois 

marriage there were issue children named, "William, Anthony, Thomas, 
Abigail, Elizabeth and Mary. As to this family of Cage, see Ohaun- 
cy's History of Hertfordshire, Vol. I, p. 371. 

(7) John Holgate of Saffron Walden, Essex, and of the Middle 
Temple, gentleman, was bora in 163(3, and died May 5, 1673. He 
married first, Anne, daughter of Richard Plomer (Plummer) of 
Saffron Walden, gentleman, and secondly, Mary, daughter of 
William Waad of Battles in Essex. There was issue of the second 
marriage, Armigel Holgate (baptized at Satfron Walden, 1688, buried 
there April 4, 1689), Robert Holgate died young, and Anne Holgate, 
who married James Monteith (of the noble Scotch family of that 
name), died January 5, 1685. Mary (Waad) Holgate was buried 
in St. Mary's Church, at Saffron Walden, April 34, 1654, under a 
ledger stone at the west end of the church. This stone with its quaint 
Latin inscription is reproduced in photographic facsimile in Miscel- 
lanea Genealorjica et Heraldica. For particulars of the Holgate 
family see 'Beviy's Essex Oenealocjies, p. 115. 

{k) Lysons' Environs of London, Vol. II, p. 533. 



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{^Calendar State Papers, Foreign, i^']^--] , passijn). During the 
winter of 15789, he was in Italy, whence he forwarded to 
Burghle}' reports on its political condition. From Venice 
in April, 1579, he sent the lord-treasurer fifty of the rarest 
kinds of seeds in Italy [Cat. Hatfield AfS. II, 254). In May, 
he was at Florence, and in February, 1579-80, he was 
residing at Strasburg, furnishing Burghley with informa- 
tion on the state of Germany. An abstract of one of his 
curious letters must suffice. It runs as follows: 

My desire hath been great, and my endeavour hath not 
wanted, to give your Lordship some certain informations 
of the doings which are here in hand. The which are 
sealed with such secrecy, and coloured with reports, 
as neither by intelligence, nor by the opinion of men, is 
there any knowledge to be had. So as it must be even the 
discourse of reason that m.usi open the way to conceive of 
these matters, whereunto and how unable I am, by the weak- 
ness of my understanding, and the small acquaintance I 
have of the affairs of these parts, the simpleness of my 
former advertisements do not dissemble. On the one side, 
I never do look for good where those are the intermeddlers 
that do deal therein ; on the other, am led to think that the 
Duke Casimir would never have been brought to any 
colloquy with the Guises, but upon hope of great matters, 
as he maketh preparations for all things necessary to some 
voyage. 

The French king wrote unto him to Nancy that he 
understood Casimir meant to trouble France again, under 
colour to be paid of that was owing for the last voyage, for 
the discharge of which the king assured him he would 
take present order, and to that end was already at hand to 
assemble the estates. 

The Duke George John of Liteshowe, of the Palgrave's 
house, doth make an army, and wrote to the late assembly 
that the Duke Casimir's reiters made at Magdeburg that he 
was to make a great levy of reiters for the service of a 
great Prince, whereto he invited then"!, with assurance to 
be well paid, and they say he shall have footmen out of 
France. 

The Guises hold at this present a diet at Basle (the place 
of their general assembly), where are both the French and 
the Spanish Ambassadors. It should seem by divers 
circumstances, that either the attempting somewhat in the 
French county (FrancheComte) is the pretence, or intended 




Sir William Waal>, Knight. 



Famous English Wades. 105 

indeed. But I doubt not that all those notions which 
seem to have contrary courses, come from one mover, and 
tend to one end. Wherein what the occurrences of the 
time shall bring to light, I shall advertise your Lordship, 
which shall be but to report that your wisdom doth already 
foresee. 

There is kept at this present a diet at Possonia in 
Hungary, where the Archduke Ernest doth supply the 
emperor's absence, with whom the Hungarians are not well 
pleased, and, as they say themselves, would willingly be 
under the King of Poland. 

The Polack hath made truce with the Muscovite, doubt- 
ing the Turk by reason of an overthrow. Voro.sky, a 
banished Polack, hath given [?] to certain Turks, which 
the Great Turk imagines he has done by the secret comfort 
of the King, in hope to be restored. 

They that come this way out of Italy speak great things 
of the preparations the Spanish King doth make at Naples 
for shipping. 

Being able to advertise your Lordship nothing else, I 
humbly beseech you to think the zeal of my good will doth 
spring from that roDt that shall want but the dew of your 
good opinion and favour to yield your humble and faithful 
service. And I alwa^'s do beseech the Lord God to 
increase your contentments according to your good desires. 
From Strasburg, 7th of March, 1580," 2 pages and seal. 

In the following April he was employed on some delicate 
mission in Paris by Sir Henry Cobham (the suggestion in 
the Calendar of State Papers (Venetian), that he was Ambas- 
sador to Spain and Portugal in 1579 is evidently a mistake). 
In 1581 he seems to have returned to England, and 
entered the service of Sir Francis Walsingham as secretary, 
and in 1583 he became one of the clerks to the Privy 
Council, the register of which is missing for this period 
[ih. Dom., 1611-18, p. 198). In April of that year he was 
sent to Vienna to discuss the differences between the Hanse 
Towns and the English merchants abroad, and in July 
he accompanied Lord Willoughby on his embassy to Den- 
mark, to invest the king with the insignia of the Garter, 
and to negotiate an agreement on mercantile affairs (Birch's 
Memoirs of the Reign of Elizabeth^ Vol. I, p. 24, 31.) 

Waad left this curious Latin account of his mission in 



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Eberus' Calendar : — "April, 1583, A serenissima Regiiia ad 
Imperatorem Rudolphum ablegatus per Galliam, Viennam 
petii, inde in Hung-ariam. Finita legatione, per Hiber- 
niam (sic) et Germaniam, Emden nsque, inde per Frisiam, 
Hollandiam et Zelandiam reversus, August 2 1 , eodem anno" 
{RaivHnson MS., Bodleian Library). Lord Chancellor Hard- 
wicke had many State papers relating to Waad copied in 
his MSS., which are now the property of the New York 
Public Library, and the British State Paper office contains 
very many of his letters and reports. But to transcribe 
them would be to transgress the limits of a genealogy and 
transform the present compilation into a biography of Sir 
William Waad. 

How prominent a figure in history Sir William Waad 
was appears from Froude's History of England, wherein, 
Vol. XI, we find that in January, 1583-4, Queen Elizabeth 
sent him as Ambassador to Philip II, King of Spain, at 
Madrid, to explain the expulsion from England of Don 
Bernardino de Mendoza, the Spanish Ambassador. On his 
arrival at Madrid in March, Philip refused to admit Wade 
to his presence or to listen to any justification. A second 
and more pressing application for an audience was equally 
unsuccessful. The English Ambassador, like Mendoza, 
was directed to depart, and was told also, " in dark and 
doubtful terms, that he was favorably dealt with and might 
have looked for worse entertainment." See also [Cotton 
MSS., Vesp. C. VII, p. 392; Cat. State Papers, Simancas, 
1580-6, pp. 516, 520-1; Birch, Vol. I, pp. 45, 48; Froude, 
Vol. XI, pp. 414, 422). He was back in England on 12 
April, and with his return diplomatic relations between 
England and Spain ceased. In the same month Waad was 
sent to Mary Stuart to induce her to come to terms with 
Elizabeth, and his account of the interview at Sheffield, is 
printed by Froude [History of England, Yo\. XI, pp. 448-51). 
In February, 1584-5, he was appointed to accompany Nau 
to the Court of James' VI, but was stopped at the last 
minute [Calendar of State Papers, Simancas, 1580-6, p. 533). 
In March, Waad was despatched to Paris to demand the 



Famous English Wades. 107 

surrender of the conspirator Thomas Morgan. Henry III 
was willing to consider the request, but the Catholic 
League and the Guises were violently opposed to it, and 
even instructed the Due d' Aumale to waylay Waad and 
rescue Morgan on their way to the coast. Waad, however, 
convinced that he could not secure Morgan, contented 
himself with obtaining a promise that he should be detained 
in prison in France, but Aumale nevertheless attacked the 
envoy near Amiens, and inflicted on him a severe beating 
as an answer to his demand for the extradition of a Cath- 
olic from France. 

Times change indeed, and one shudders to imagine the 
result of beating an English Ambassador at the present 
day. 

In August, 1585, Waad accompanied William Davison to 
the Low Countries to negotiate an alliance with the States- 
General. A year later he took a prominent part in arrang- 
ing the seizure of Mary Stuart's papers which implicated 
her in the Babington plot. He himself went down to 
Chartley in August, 1586, and while Mary was decoyed 
away on a hunting expedition, arrested her secretaries 
Nau and Curie, and, having ransacked her cabinet, 
carried back a valuable collection of 60 ciphers and other 
papers to London [ib. 1580-6, pp. 625-6; Amyas Poulet, 
Letter-Books, pp. 288, sqq. ; Froude, Vol. XII, p. r6o, sqq. ). 
For this important service he was paid thirty pounds [Acts 
P. C, 1586-7, p. 211). In the following February he was 
again sent to France to explain the execution of Mary 
Stuart, to demand the recall of Del'Aubespine, the French 
Ambassador, on the ground of his dependence on the League 
and complicity in Strafford's plot, and to justify Elizabeth's 
detention of French shipping. For some time he was 
denied audience, the recall of the French Ambassador was 
refused, but more success attended his endeavour to arrange 
the dispute about the detention of French shipping in 
England, and English shipping in France {Cat. State Papers, 
Venetian, 1581-91, pp. 475. 477, 483, 492, 517, 527, 533). 
He returned to England in June. 



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This was the last of Waad's diplomatic missions. He 
seems to have been a Member of Parliament for Aldborough 
in Suffolk, in 1585, for Thetford in Norfolk, in 1588, 
for Preston in Lancashire, in i6or, and for West Looe in 
Cornwall, from 1604 to 1611. Waad was mainly occupied 
with his duties as clerk of the Privy Council, and especially 
in tracking treasonable practices and examining Jesuits 
and recusants. His zeal m these pursuits gained him the 
reputation of being the chief persecutor of the Catholics 
{ib. Dom., 1601-1603, p. 199; cf. Lansdowne MS., 63, 66, 145, 
148, 153; Law, The Archpriest Controversy, Vol I, pp. 84 85, 
155, 208, 2t2, 215, 226; Foley, Records, Vol. IV, passim). 
As early as September, 1584, he had, when Walsingham's 
secretary,' gained great credit by piecing together and deci- 
phering the fragments of the treasonable document which 
Father William Crichton had torn up on his capture. 

He is described as "An active enemy to the Jesuits. " 
"About 1584," we read, " Creighton (Crichton), a Scottish 
Jesuit, being taken by Dutch pirates, tore up certain papers 
and attempted to throw them into the sea; but the wind 
brought them back to the ship; which, being delivered to 
Sir William Waad, were jojmed again, and revealed new 
plots of the Pope, the Spaniards and Guisians to invade 
England, etc." In Bishop Carleton's Thankful Remembrance 
of God's Mercy (1624), is a small picture of Waad, repre- 
sented in the act of putting the fragments of these treason- 
able papers together. 

(The story, sometimes described as ridiculous, is undoubt- 
edly true; see Mr. T. G. Law in English Historical Review, 
Vol. VIII., p. 698). From this time (1584), Waad was fre- 
quently engaged in bringing to light plots against the 
Queen's life, among them that of Dr. Roderigo Lopez in 
1594, of which Waad drew up a narrative, still extant at 
the British Record Office {State Papers, Domestic, Vol. 
CCXLVni., art. 7), and Essex's Rebellion in 1601 (see Car- 
leton. Thankful Remembrance; Calendar State Papers, Domes- 
tic, 1591-1603, /^j-.y/;«.). 

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Famous English Wades. 109 

I., by whom he was knighted on 20 May, 1603. During 
the summer and autumn he was busily engaged in tracking 
out the Main and By plots. On 12 November, he conducted 
Raleigh from the Tower to stand his trial at Winchester 
(Gardiner, History, Vol. I., p. 123; Calendar State Papers, 
Domestic, 1603-10, pp. 27, 35), sitting as one of the judges 
named in the special commission. After his trial, Cobham, 
according to Sir Anthony Weldon, wrote: 'That villain 
Wade did often solicit me, and, not prevailing, got me, by 
a trick, to write my name on a piece of white paper, which 
I, thinking nothing, did; so that if any charge came under 
my hand, it was forged by that villain Wade, by writing 
something above my hand without my consent or knowl- 
edge' (Weldon, Court and Character of James I. (Ed. 18 11), 
Vol. I., p. 350). It is hinted that Waad behaved in a simi- 
lar manner with regard to the confession of Thomas Win- 
ter, in the examination of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators. 
On August 15, 1605, Sir William Waad was appointed 
Lieutenant of the Tower of London. When the Gunpow- 
der Plot was discovered in the followinsf November, he 
gave the first correct information of the whereabouts of 
Thomas Percy, one of the leaders in the conspiracy. His 
letter to Salisbury (No. 14, Gunpowder Plot Book') is curious, 
and as follows: 

"It may please your good Lordship, my cousin Sir Ed- 
ward York (/) being lately come out of the North and 
coming this afternoon to me, upon speech of the happy 
discovery of this most monstrous plot, he telleth me he 
met Thomas Percy, the party sought for, going down to the 
North disguised, whereupon I thought good to send my 
cousin Yorke to your Lordship that he may relate so much 
to your honoured Lordship. From the Towar in haste, this 
5th November, 1605. 

At the Commandment of 

Yr. honoured Lordship, 

W. WAAD." 

{I) As to this family of York, see Visitation of London hy Cooke, 
Clarencieux, 1568, Harleian Society Publications, Vol. I., p- 81. Sir 
John York of Goldthwayt, Yorkshire, was knighted at Whitehall, 16 
June, 1560, and died in London, a citizen of York, in 1568. ilis 
will is proved in Register 4, Sheflfeld, Prerogative Court of Canter- 
bury (1568). 



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The historian, S. R. Gardiner, in his pamphlet " The 
Truth About Gunpoivder Plot'' (1897), says: 

" Two other letters from the Lieutenant of the Tower, 
written on the Fifth of November, to Salisbury, are among 
the Gunpowder papers. Waad, 'says Gardiner,' was after- 
wards most indefatigable in all proceedings connected with 
the plot. He held the office of Lieutenant of the Tower 
for many years, but subsequently was dismissed on suspi- 
cion of embezzling some jewels belonging to Lady 
Arabella Stuart, and his daughter was imprisoned. His 
name is affixed to many of the numerous depositions after- 
wards taken." 

One of these letters (No. 13, Gunpoivder Plot Book), relates 
to the Spaniards, and is as follows: 

" It may please your honourable Lordship, I thought it 
very fit yr. L. should know that the people in these parts 
do so murmur and exclaim against the Spaniards as may 
grow to further mutiny or disorder, if some good severe 
order be not taken to prevent the same. Mr. Cole dwelleth 
hard by, who, if your Lordship think fit. may have direc- 
tions to be in readiness, if anything should be attempted, 
to appease the same; which I reserve to yr. Lordship's 
graiver judgment, and so rest ever, very humbly, 

At the c. of yr. h. L., 

W. WAAD." 

The other (No. 12, Gunpowder Plot Book), seems to be a 
letter of congratulation, merely. The expressions Waad 
used are curious. 

" As nothing is more strange unto me than that it should^ 
enter into the thought of any man living to attempt any- 
thing against a sourain prince of so sourain goodness, so 
I thanke God on the knees of my soul that this monstrous 
wickedness is discovered; and I beseech God all the 
particularityes may be layed open and the traiterous 
wretches receive their deserts. I thanke God all my pris- 
oners are safe: My care hath of late been the more be- 
cause we have been extraordinarily warned by such accy- 
dents I told yr. L., and the night watches are the severest 
of any fort in Christendom. * * * j wish 

impreservation to your Lordship, on whose good the good 
of his Majesty and the whole estate doth very nerely de- 



Famous English Wades. hi 

pend. From the Towar of London, this 5th November, 
1605. 

Humbly at the 

Commandment of 

Yr. h. L., 

WM. WAAD." 

" Because 1 know all the gates of London are kept, I have 
brought all the warders into the Tower, and set a watch 
at the posterns and the gate of St. Katherine and at the 
landing strands." 

Sir William Wade also wrote to Salisbury, on November 8, 
1605 {Gunpoivder Plot Book, No. 48 B.) : 

" I find this fellow. Gay Fawkes, who this day is in a most 
stubborn and perverse humour, as dogged as if he were 
possessed: Yesternight I had persuaded him to set down 
a clear narration of all his v/icked plots from the first enter- 
ing to the same to the end they pretended, with the 
discourses and projects that were thought upon amongst 
them, which he undertook (to do), and craved time this 
this night to bethink him the better; but this morning he 
hath changed his mind and is (so) sullen and obstinate as 
there is no dealing with him." 

Guy Fawkes' confession is dated the ninth of November, 
and is witnessed by Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Waad 
and Forsett. Winter's confession is dated November 23, 
1605, and is attested by Sir William Waad. There is noth- 
ing to show that Winter's evidence was procured by 
torture, except a letter of Waad's, written November 21, in 
which he says: " Thos. Winter doth find himself his hand 
so strong as after dinner he will settle himself to write that 
he hath verbally declared to yr. Lordship, adding that 
which he shall remember. " But Winter had been wounded 
in the shoulder at Holbeach House and the improvement 
may refer to the state of this wound. 

The full text of that curious document, the confession of 
Guy Fawkes was reproduced in facsimile in the London 
Graphic of November 4, 1893, and runs as follows: 

"The exaiation of guido fauke taken this 9 of Jan., 
1605: — ' He confesseth that Mr. Catesby tould this exaiat 
that Sir Ede Bayneham was derected by him to goe to the 
Pope and to acquaint him with the hard estate of the 



112 The Wade Genealogy. 

Catholiques of England to the end Sir Ede Bayneham 
might be there in rediness and the Pope to be by him 
acquainted with the succour to be p'pared for the reliefe 
of Catholiques after the projecte of the powder had taken 
effect and that then such further imployment might have 
been made by Sir Ede Bayneham to the Pope as should 
have been thought fitte. 

Guido Fawkes. 

Jo Popham, 

Edw. Coke. 

W. Waad.' " 

Granger says Waad was a man of great learning, gener- 
osity and benevolence, who had been employed by Queen 
Elizabeth in several embassies, and that he was removed 
from the Lieutenancy of the Tower, to make way for Sir 
Gervase Elways, a man of a prostitute character, who was 
the chief instrument in poisoning Sir Thomas Overbury. 

Lloyd tells us that Sir William Waad's directions we owe 
Rider's Dictionary, to his encouragement. Hooker's Ecclesias- 
tical Polity" [Richard Hooker (1553-1600) "the Judicious 
Hooker,'" author of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594);] 
and to his charge, Gruter's Inscriptions. 

" This excellent man," says a contemporary, " employed 
a faithful and judicious friend to admonish him of every- 
thing that he saw amiss in his conduct." 

That he was of the goodly company of learned men of 
those days appears from the pen of Nicholas, who, in his Life 
of William Davison (secretary to Queen Elizabeth), p. 215, 
also quotes a letter from Francis Davison to his father 
William Davison, wherein he "desires to be recommended 
to Mr, Anthony and Mr. Francis Bacon " [Anthony and 
Francis Bacon are, of course, the famous Francis Bacon, 
Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Alban (1561-1626), and his 
brother], "and Mr. Wade and the rest of my dear and 
honorable friends." 

In 1612, John Taylor, the Water Poet, dedicated his early 
publication. The Sculler, "To the Right Worshipfull and 
worthy favourer of learning, my singular good Master, Sir 
William Waad, Knight," etc. And in his Farewell to the 




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Tower Bottles (1622), the Water Poet thus refers to his 

patron : — 

•' And now I talk of three, just three we are. 
Two false Black bottles and myself at jar 
And reader, when yon read our cause of strife 
You'll laugh or else lie down, I'll lay my life. 
But as remembrance lamely can rehearse 
In sport, I'll rip the matter up in verse 
Yet first here down I think it fit to set 
By what means first, I with these Bottles met 
Then stroke your beard, my masters, and give ear 
I was a waterman twice four long year. 
And lived in a contented happy state, 
Then turn'd the whirling wheel of fickle Fate 
From water unto wine : Sir William Waad 
Did freely and for nothing turn my trade 
Ten years almost the place I did retain 

And glean' d great Bacchus' blood from France and Spain 

******* 

But as men's thoughts a world of ways do range, 
So as Lieutenants chang'd, did customs change." 

Sir William Waad, subscribed ^75 to the funds of the 
Virginia Company, and actually paid ;^i44, los. He was 
one of those who purchased the Somers Islands (the modern 
Bermudas), frotn the Virginia Company on November 25, 
1612, and resigned them to the Crown of England, Novem- 
ber 23, 1614. 

How important a factor he was in the early colonization 
of Virginia fully appears from a perusal of Alexander 
Brown's Genesis of the United States, and the Calendar of the 
State Papers. We find that Zuiiiga, the Spanish Ambassa- 
dor at the English Court, seldom forwarded a report to 
his master, without referring to the acts or sayings "of 
the Knight Wed," as he styled Sir William Waad, who 
was a Member of Council for Virginia in 1606, and a Mem- 
ber of Council for the Virginia Company in 1609. 

Sir William Waad was one of the chief agents in ferreting- 
out the Powder Plot (Jardine, Gunpowder Plot; Gerard, 
IVhat zcas the Gunpowder Plot? and Gardiner, What Gun- 
powder Plot 7oas, passim). Waad's treachery in so doing, 
however, rests on most inconclusive evidence. Mural 
inscriptions placed by Waad in the Powder Plot room in 
the Queen's house of the Tower of London, commemorate 
the plot and are still extant (Gerard, pp. 264, 267). This 

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114 The Wade Genealogy. 

memorial in the form of a panel on the wall, embellished 
with Waad's own armorial achievements (/), is in the shape 
of a long pious prayer — pagan in form and far from class- 
ical in style. It sets forth the virtues and dignities of 
those who were to have suffered from the explosion, and 
concludes with a votive offering from the Lieutenant of 
the Tower, and is here reproduced. 

For the curious, the inscription — the work of a time- 
serving prototype of Doctor Pangloss — can be found in its 
entirety in Brayley's History of the Tower of London. In 
English, its concluding paragraphs, wherein the worthy 
Lieutenant uses Greek and Hebrew, as well as Latin, run 
as follows : 

'• To Almighty God, the guardian arrestor and avenger 
— Who has punished this great and incredible conspiracy 
against our most merciful Lord the King, our most serene 
Lady the Queen, our divinely disposed Prince, and the rest 
of our Royal House» & against all persons of qualit)^ 
our ancient nobility, our soldiers, prelates & judges; the 
authors and advocates of which conspiracy, Romanized 
Jesuits of perfidious Catholic religion, and by the treason- 
ous hope of overthrowing the Kingdom, root and branch ; 
and which was suddenly, wonderfully and divinely de- 
tected, at the very moment when the ruin was impending, 
on the 5th day of November, in the year of grace, 1605. — 
William Waad, whom the King has appointed his Lieuten- 
ant of the Tower, returns on the ninth of October, in the 
6th year of the reign of James I, 1608, his great and ever- 
lasting thanks." 

We find from The Dallison Fa?nily Papers that Sir William 

W^aad had as deputies at the Tower, Sir Roger Dallison, 

Sir John Kay and Edward Forsett. In 1608 he was granted 

.a month's leave of absence. On July 6, and again in 16 10, 

(0 These arms appear in the Visitation of London bi/ Robert 
Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1568, as follows: Quarterly, 1 Azure, a salt- 
ire, between 4 escallops, or. 3, or a chevron, between 3 eagles' heads, 
erased sable. 3, Gules, 2 garbs, or. 4, Azure, two bars, argent, on a 
chief of the last, 3 maunches, gules. A reproduction of the panel 
in question is to be found in Arohaeologia, Vol. XII. 



Famous English Wades. 115 

July 18, the same period of leave of absence was given him. 
William Hepworth Dixon {Her Majesty' s Tower) makes many- 
references to Waad and his unpopularity with his prison- 
ers. But jailers, as a rule, are unpopular with their 
charges, and Waad's subserviency was a national fault 
rather than an individual failing, in the days of the divine 
right of Kings. 

In 1613, he was dismissed from the Lieutenancy of the 
Tower. The closeness with which he guarded Sir Thomas 
Overbury and his own integrity proved inconvenient to the 
Countess of Essex. He was charged with carelessness in 
guarding his prisoners, with allowing Arabella Stuart the 
use of a key, and even with embezzling her jewels. These 
were mere pretexts, and in May, 1613, Waad was forced to 
give way to a more complaisant lieutenant in the person of 
Sir Gervase Helwys {Calendar of State Papers, Dom., Vol. 
LXXI, p. 84; Amos, Great Oyer of Poisoning, p. 107; Gard- 
iner, Vol. II, p. 179). On 23 August he also resigned his 
patent as clerk of the Privy Council. 

Henceforth Waad lived in retirement at Belsize House, 
Hampstead, and at his house, Battles Hall, near Manuden, 
Essex. 

Wright's History of the County of Essex (Vol. II, p. 206), 
in dealing with the parish of Manuden, says: "Sir 
William Waad, Kt., erected the manor house of Battails 
(now Battles), which is about a mile from the church. The 
name is understood to be from a more ancient family who 
had possessions in Little Chishall and other places in the 
county, and some of whom were formerly resident in this 
parish. From these the estate descended to the families of 
Findern and Heron and to Roger Townshend, Esq., of 
whom it was purchased by Owen Waller of the family of 
that name, of Parham in Suffolk, after whose decease, in 
1574, his daughter and heiress, Anne, was married to Sir 
William Waade, Knight, many years Clerk of the Council 
to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First. A 
particular account of Sir William is given in the inscrip- 
tion on his monument in Manuden Church." 



ii6 The Wade Genealogy. 

Sir William Wade, as we have said, died at Battailes- 
Wade (now called Battles Hall), in the parish of Manuden, 
in the County of Essex, on October 21, 1623, and in St. 
Mary's Church, Manuden, in the north aisle, is a mural 
monument bearing a Latin inscription in gold letters, of 
which the following is a translation: 

" Sir William Waad, Knight, son of Armigild, Secretary 
to the Lady Elizabeth's Priv}^ Council many years, sent 
once to the Emperor Rudolphus and to Philip of Spain, 
and to Henry HI., King of France, thrice to Henry IV. of 
France and Navarre, and once to Mary, Queen of Scotland, 
on various occasions of the greatest importance. Commis- 
sary-General of England and Superintendent of the Sol- 
diery in Ireland, and also Secretary to the Privy Council of 
our most serene Lord King James, and Lieutenant of the 
London Tower eight years. Afterwards living privately 
and religiously till his 77th year, and died at his manor of 
Battailes-Wade in the county of Essex on the 21st day of 
October, in the year of our Lord, 1623. 

You that have place and charge from prince's trust. 

Which honours may make thankful, not unjust. 

Draw near and set your conscience and your care 

By this true watch of State; whose minutes were 

Religious thoughts; whose howers heaven's sacred food; 

Whose hand still pointed to the kingdom's good, 

And sovereign's safety; Whom^ ambition's key 

Never wound up to guiltiness, bribe or fee. 

Zeale only, and a conscience cleare and even 

Raysed him on earth and wound him up to Heaven." 

The monument is surmounted by an achievement of Sir 
William Wade's arms, with the various marriages quar- 
tered and marshalled, as depicted in the illustration used 
as frontispiece to the first part of this book. Having fallen 
into decay, it was recently and very handsomely restored at 
the cost of William de Vins Wade, Esquire, of Great Dun- 
mow, Essex, a descendant of this family. Two portraits 
of Waad are known, one anonymous, engraved by Jenner, 
both being reproduced in half-tone engraving in the 
present book. His first wife's property, in East Ham, 
involved Waad in prolonged litigation {Acts P. C, 1586-7, 
p. 235). (The details in Lansdowne MS. 83, Art. 82, 




Fkances Wade, daughter of William Wade and his wife Ann (Dean). 
From the miniature painted by E. G. Malbone. 



Famous English Wades. 117 

about an illegal marriage in 1596, indexed as referring to 
Sir William Waad, refer to one Michael Wade; a similar 
error is made in the Calendar of State Papers^ Domestic, 1601- 
3. P- 189). 

In the MSS. of the Right Honorable the Earl of Leicester, 
at Holkham Hall, in the county of Norfolk, is a collection 
of curious epigrams written by the Reverend Thomas 
Porter of Hemnall, in Norfolk, about 1623. The compiler 
desires to thank that courteous nobleman and his able 
librarian for the subjoined curiosity from the Porter collec- 
tion, namely an epigram on Sir William Wade: — 

Gul : Wade: Militi amico eximo. 
Virtutem in cedis magna stipante caterna. 
Et tibi Musarum serviet alma cohors 
Inq tuo charites pernoctant pectore tumae 
His nunquam faniilis incomitatus eris. 
Gulielmo Wade militi nuper 
Praefecto Turris Londinensis 
Intonuit nuper Fortuna et acerba nimata est 
Est tua mens tantis illabefacta mails 
Armatus virtute es, et indistrictus abibis 
Machina virtutis dejicit omne malum. 
Gulielmo Wade, Praestanti Militi 
Grandius effundit lumen quam luna velastia 
Ut Phoebus sic tu quoq. luna grandius astris 
Lumen sonoris habes splendenti aequabile Phoeba 
In coelo luna astra et Phoebus nube teguntur 
Ecce micant tamen insidia per nubila fulges 
Timor virtutis comes est ubi maxima virtus 
Maximus est timor sed terq: quaterq, beatus 
Usus amicorum cum sit tibi quatuor amplius 
Seu mentis patriae, seu Regis Luminis usus 
Vade igitur, pie Wade — Deus tibi praemia reddet 
Virtus te rede untem te comitatur euntem 
Amatis te stipat honos, te gloria pennis. 
Dum dixit regina fidem est experta Jacobus 
Est expertus amabat Elisa Jacobus amabit 
Mens tua conscia recti : Turris ahenea quamvis 
Invida fata fremant invida fata premant 
Liber eris tanto curarem pondere dempto 
Et posita Sparta jam tibi parta quies 
Saepe graves curas comitatur terror et error. 



ii8 The Wade Genealogy. 

Epigrams on Sir William Wade and on a certain Eras- 
mus Wade are also preserved among the manuscripts of the 
Marquis of Hertford. They were written by one Daniel 
Rogers, in the last quarter of the i6th century. {^Historical 
MSS., Commission, 4th Report, Vol.1., 253). 

The Dictionary of National Biography gives these refer- 
ences to Sir William Waad : 

(Manuscript collections relating to the Wade family by 
Stuart C. Wade; Lansdowne MS., passim. ; Calendar of State 
Papers, Dom., 1580-1623, Foreign, 1575-7, Spanish, 1580-6, 
Venetian, 1581-91; Calendar of Hatfield MSS., Vols. II.- 
VI.; Acts of the Friiy Council, edited by Dasent, 1580-90; 
Camden's Annals; Stow's Annals; Weldon's Court of James I. , 
pp. 346, 350; Winwood's Memorials; Birch's Memorials of 
Elizabeth; Edward's Life of Raleigh; Wright's Elizabeth; 
Vol. II., pp. 215, 335, and Essex, Vol. II., p. 208; Nicolas's 
Life of Davison, p. 215; Granger's Biogr. Hist.; Brown's 
Genesis U. S. A.; Foster's Grays Inn Reg.; Official Ret. 
Members of Pari.; Froude's Hist.; Gardiner's Liist. ; and 
authorities above cited. 

The State Papers abound with letters written by Waad and 
examinations of prisoners attested with his signature. To 
do more than to refer to these sources of information would 
tax the limits of any genealogical work. 

10. Thomas Waad (son of Armigel), born 1547; died Dec, 

'594- 

Married : — Gertrude (daughter of ). 

Lssue : — ? 

Thomas Waad was a Reader in the Law (/. e., lecturer on 
law at one of the Inns of Court). He died December, 1594. 

The principal source of information as to Thomas Wade 
is the Raiulinson MS., D. , 11 60, fos. 61 b-3, in the Bodleian 
Library, Oxford, which records this MS. note by William 
Waad in his copy of Paiili Eheri Calendarium. Under 
December: — "My brother, Thomas Waad, Esq., a Reader 
in the Law, departed this life at four of the clocke in the 
afternoon in the year of our Lord God 1594, being of the 



Famous ExVGLish Waues. 119 

age of forty-seven years." The nuncupative will of 
Thomas Wade, Esquire, was proved in the P. C. C, 31 Dec., 
1594, by a proctor for Gertriide Wade, the relict and execu- 
trix. By it under date 17 Dec. (37 Elizabeth) he bequeathed 
all his property to his wife Gertrude. (Reg. 86 Dixy). 

Occasional references in the Calendars of the State 
Papers show that Thomas Waad obtained some legal work 
for the Crown and this by recommendation of his elder 
brother, Sir William Waad. 

26. Christopher Waue (son of Arthur) of Kilnsay, born 
about 1 59 1. 
Married : — Margaret (daughter of Cuthbert Wytham). 
of Garforth, Yorkshire. 

Issue : — 

33. Cuthbert Wade, bapt. at Ooniston, Nov. 17, 1619. 

34. Arthur Wade, bur. at Ooniston, May. 1618. 

35. Anne Wade, bapt. at Ooniston, April 4, 1622 ; bur. 

there Augr. 8, 1623. 

36. Margaret Wade, bapt. at Ooniston, April 4, 1624 ; 

bur. there Aug. 8, 1628. 

38" I— Wade' ^ t^^^^' ^ur. at Ooniston, April 3, 1626. 
39! William Wade, bapt. at Ooniston. April 22, 1627. 
40. Elizabeth Wade, bapt. at Ooniston, May 13, 1621 ; 
m. Edward Warde of North Ootes, Yorkshire. 

Christopher Wade was buried at Coniston, Yorkshire 
(where all his children were baptized and those dying 
young were buried), March 9, 1673. His wife predeceased 
him and was buried there, January 22, 1648. 

28. James Waad (m) (son of Sir William), aged 19, in 6 
Car. I. (/. e., born 1620). 
Married : — Frances (daughter of ), born 1628. 

Issue : — 

(m) From entries in repi/\s Bian/, Oct. 30, 1662. Jan. 14, 1659, 
(when he dined there), March 8, 1659, and other dates, we find that 
his " old acquaintance Mr. Wade," who lived in Axe Yard, London, 
had obtained information as to £7000 in money hid in the Tower. 
He seems to have heard this from a female confidant of Barkstede, 
Lieutenant of the Tower under OromwelJ, but the money ma// have 
been some of Sir William Waad's hiding. The busybody Pepys details 
several ineffectual searches and then drops the matter. He also 



I20 The Wade Genealogy. 

41. William Waad. 

42. Anne Waad, b. about 1651 : m. Sir Edward Bash (n). 

James Waad died before July 26, 167 1. His widow mar- 
ried Sir Joseph Douglas {0). 

33. CuTHBERT Wade (son of Christopher), baptized at 
Coniston, November 17, i6ig. 
Married : — I, Agnes (daughter of Matthew Brackin 
of Litton (Linton ?), in the County of York; sole" 
heiress to her father and to Anne, her mother, 
daughter of Thomas Litton, of Litton, aforesaid. 
She was buried at Coniston, Sept. 17, 1655). 

Issue : — 

43. Christopher Wade. bapt. at Coniston, Sept. 11, 

1641, adm. St, John's College, Cambridge, May 
8, 1657; d. young. 

44. Cuthbert Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Sept. 30, 165!3 ; 

d. unm. 

45. Margaret Wade. 

46. Elizabeth Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Sept. 3, 1640. 

47. Anne Wade, bapt. atConiston, Aug. 11, 1639. 

48. Mary Wade, bapt. at Coniston. May 18. 1648. 

49. Agnes Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Dec. 21, 1646. 

50. Sara Wade, bapt. at Coniston, May 5, 1650 ; bur. 

there July 14, 1651. (?) 

Married : — II, Dorothy (daughter of Francis Malham 

of Eslack, Yorkshire, widow of Nelson of 

Carleton). Married at Burnsall, September 6, 1654. 

Issue : — 

notes that Wade had been to Zeeland and was rallied by his friends 
with "making" [i.e., boodling) £500. This ???.rt^y have been the son 
of Sir Wilham Waad. 

[n] Marriage Licenses of the Vicar General of the Archbishop of 
Canterbury, edited by Colonel Chester, contain this entry: — " 1671, 
July 26. Edwd. Bash of Stansted Berry. Herts, Esq. Batchr, abt. 19 
(his mother's consent) & Mrs. Anne Wade of Battles Co., Essex Spr., 
abt. 21 (consent of her mother. Dame Frances Douglas alias Waad), 
alleged by Sir Jos. Douglas of Malendine, Co. Essex, Knt. at St. 
Mary, Savoy." Le Neve's Knights states that Sir Edward Bashe 
of Stanstedbury, knighted at Whitehall March 20, 1671, was living 
in 1698, sold all his estate A: very poor; married Anne, daughter of 

■ — Wade of Battles Essex, Esq., grandchild of Sir William Wade 

and sole heir of the family living 1698. No children. As to the Bash 
family, see also Chauncy's History of Hertfordshire and Berry's 
Hertfordshire Pedigrees. 

(o) The marriage license is dated August 1, 1661, was granted by 
the Bishop of London and names St. Peter's Church, Paul's Wharf, 
London, as the place of the ceremony. 



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rA. Francis Wade, d. youug. 

52. Hester Wade, d. young. 

Married : — III, Frances (daughter of William Beilby 
of Killerby and Micklethwayt Grange, Yorkshire, 
widow of Jonas Thompson of Kilham and Francis 
Dodsworth of Matlas). 

Issue : — 

53. Cuthbert Wade, b. 1663. 

54. Frances Wade. b. 1663-4; m. Feb. 8. 1682-3, at 

Coniston, William Serjeantson of Hanlith in 
Craven, Yorkshire: Justice of the Peace for the 
North Riding of Yorkshire, b. Nov. 17, 1665, by 
whom she had a son, Eobert Serjeantson. 

Cuthbert Wade is described in the Herald's Visitation 

of the County of York, as "one of his Majestie's Justices 

of the^^Peace for this County of Yorke, a captain of horse 

in the Army of King Charles the First, and afterwards a 

captain of the Trayned Band." He appears from the List 

of the Delinquents to have been a zealous Cavalier, to have 

been related to the Earl of Cumberland. He was fined for 

taking up arms against the Commonwealth, as appears, 

ante, p. 63 (/). 

41. William Waad (son of James). 

Married: — Anne (daughter of Haynes Barley) of 
Clavering, Essex {q), died 1724. 

Issue : — 

55. William Waad, d. young. 

56. Anne Waad, d. young. 

( p) The Earl of Cumberland here referred to was Henry Cliftbrd, 
5th Earl, who died in 1643. (See Banks' Dormant and Extinct 
Peerage, Vol. Ill, p. 220). 

{q) A search of the church register of Clavering, Essex, fails to 
disclose an entry of this marriage, but the courteous Vicar, the Rev- 
erend F. Gr. Nash, reports that there are many gaps in the registers, 
and noticeably so at this period. Anne Barley was the daughter of 
Haynes Barley of Clavering, Essex, by Margaret, his wife, daughter 
of George Oliver of Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. Arms of 
Barleij. Barry wavy of six, ermine and sable. She was buried at 
Manuden, Dec. 1, 1724. In Hlstori/ of Essex, Vol. III., p. 130 (8vo., 
1770), is a long account of her husband's murder. A pamphlet, en- 
titled Jloteler's Case in the British Museum, refers to it. As to Mrs. 
Betty Ainsworth's part in it, see Pcpifs Diari/, 7 Oct., 1667, and May 
22, 1668 and Lord Braybrooke's notes. See also Morant's^s.se.r, Vol. 
II., pp. 620, 621. 



122 The Wade Genealogy. 

Captain William Waad was murdered in July, 1667, in a 
field near his own house, b)^ an assassin named Parsons. 
His rank came from his commission in the Trained Bands. 

53. Cuthbert Wade (son of Cuthbert), born 1662. 

Man-ied : — Rebecca (daughter of Sir Robert Mark- 
ham, Kilt.). 

Issue : — 

57. Rebecca Wade, bapt. at Conistou, Dec. 14, 1692. 

Cuthbert Wade, Jr., evidentlj' died young as his widow 
married II., Thomas Heber, Esq., of Marston and Stain- 
ton, Yorkshire, and had by him a daughter, Rebecca He- 
ber, who married Roger Nowell, of Rede Hall, Yorkshire, 
Esq. 

The frequent entries of the name of Wade m the regis- 
ters of St. Mary's Chapel at Conistone, in the parish of 
Burnsall, Deanery of Craven, West Riding, of the County 
of York, leads one to suppose that a careful series of ab- 
stracts of the Wade wills at York, Lancaster, Ripon and 
Carlisle, would develop the ancestry of Armigel Wade. 
Failing to interest his reputed descendants and in the 
(faint) hope of others following up his researches, the 
compiler prints the entries of Wade in the early Conistone 
Registers, followed by a list of the early Wade wills at 
York. There is a wealth of genealogical information to 
be gathered from abstracts of the wills at York. 

EXTKACTS FROM CONISTONE REGISTERS. 

23 Elizabeth (1580) Apr. 10, married Christofer Wade and Gennet 

Kydde. 
1597, June 1. Gennetta uxor Cbristoferi Wade sepulta fuit. Payd 

to ye Oliappell iijs. 
1613, Oct. 26. Arthur Wade buried. 

1617, May 8. Baptized Arthur, the son of Christofer Wade. 

1618, May 4. Buried Arthur, the son of Christofer Wade. 

1619, Nov. 17. Baptized Cutbart, the son of Christofer Wade. 

1621, May 13. Baptized Elizabeth, the daugter of Chrystofer Wade. 

1622, June 16. Baptized Anne, the daughter of Chrystofer Wade. 

1623, July 9. Buried Elizabeth, t^ie wyfe of Arthur Wade. 

1623, Aug. 8. Buried Anne, the daughter of Christofer Wade. 

1624, April 4. Baptized Margret, the daughter of Christofer Wade. 

1625, June 2. Buried Margret, the daughter of Christofer Wade. 

1626, April 3. Buried two infants of Christofer Wade. 



Famous English Wades. i: 

1627, April 22. Baptized Willya, the sonne of Christofer Wade. 

1627, June 4. Buried Willj-a, the sonne of Christofer Wade. 

1634, Mar. 20. Buried Francis Wade. 

1039, Aug. 11. Baptized Anne, daughter of Cuthbert Wade. 

1640. Sept. 3. Baptized Elizabeth, daughter of Cuthbert Wade. 

1642, Sept. 21. Baptized Christofer, sou of Cuthbert Wade. 

1646, Dec. 21. Baptized Agnes, daughter of Cuthbert Wade. 

1646, June 10, Buried Agnes, daughter of Cuthbert Wade. 

1648. May 18. Baptized Marie, daughter of Mr. Cuthbart Wade. 

1648, Jan. 22. Buried Margret, ye wyfe of Mr. Christopher Wade. 

1650, May 5. Baptized Sarah, daughter of Mr. Cuthbart Wade. 

1651, July 14. Buried Sara Wade. 

1652, Sept. 20. Baptized Ciitbart, sonne of Cutbard Wade. 
1652, Sept. 17. Buried Mrs. Agnes, wyfe of Mr. Cutbard Wad. 
1672, Dec. 24. Buried Francis, ye sonne of Samuell Wade. 

1672, Mar. 9. Buried Mr. Christopher, the sonne of Arthur Wade. 

1682, Feb. 8. Married Will Sarjantson and Frances Wade. 

1688, Dec. 11. Buried Cuth. Wade Esquire in linnen. 

1692, Sept. 14. Baptized Eebecca, daughter of Cuth. Wade. 

1693, Nov. 14. Baptized Cuth. Wade, ye sonn of Cuth. Wade. 
1693, Jan. 9. Biiried Mr. Cuth. Wade. 



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T26 The Wade Genealogy. 

*********** 

loo. William Wade, B. A., Christ's Colleg-e, Cambridge, 
1746 (son of ), born about 1729 (r). 

Married : — Margaret (daughter of ). 

Issjie : — 

101. George Wade, b. 1767. 

102. Sarah Wade, b. at Braughino-, County Hertford, Dec. 

25, 17G9; m. the Eev. R. Black, Rector of Hutton; 
had two sons and one daughter; bur. at Braugh- 
ing, Nov. 13, 1826. 

108. Anne Wade, bapt. at Braughing, Sept. 18, 1771; m. 
the Rev. R. Harvey, Vicar of St. Lawrence, Rams- 
gate, Kent; d. June 18, 1827; bur. at St. Lawrence. 

104. Fitzjohn Wade, b. at Braughing, Sept. 7, 1778. 

104a. Margaret Wade, d. unm. 

104b. William Wade, d. Feb. 24, 1790, aged 24. 

The Reverend William Wade was instituted as Vicar of 
Braughing, July 8, 1761, on the presentation of Jacob 
Houblon, Esquire. He may have been the son of the 
Reverend William Wade, LL. B., Vicar of the nearby- 
church of Standon, in the same County of Hertford, pre- 
sented to the living, March 15, 1719 (on the death of his 
father, the Reverend John Wade, who had been Vicar of 
Standon from October 21, 1670), and who died in 1728. A 
monumental inscription in Braughing Church reads as 
follows : 

" Depositum corpus W. Wade, Braughing, viginti annos 
Vicar, qui morti succubuit Ao., 1780, et aet. suae 51. 
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit, nulli flebilior quam 
conjugi charae. Near this, is also interred his daughter 
Mary, who died A. D. 1778, aetate 7 months. Likewise, 
the Reverend William Wade, second son of the aforesaid 
William Wade, who died February 24, 1790, aetate 24. 

(r) It is a matter of sincere regret to the compiler that he could not 
persuade the living members of this family to ascertain from the 
public records of England the ancestry of this William Wade. 
Especially is this so, as the possession of the Wade Horn, and the 
use of the peculiar christian name Armigel, fortify the family tradi- 
tion of a descent from Armigel. But the Wades are peculiar people. 
It will hardly be credited by future generations that of five thousand 
living Wades (for the compiler has a mailing list of that number), 
over 4500 had not the courtesy to reply to two or three circulars, 
while of the less than 500 subscribers, fewer than 25 bore any part 
of the serious cost of compilation and publishing. Indeed some 
even forgot to pay for their copies of the book. 



Famous English Wades. 127 

Also Margaret Wade, widow of the aforesaid William 
Wade, formerly Vicar of this parish. She deceased April 
28, 1798, aetate 60." 

A William Wade, B. D., was presented to the living of 
Lilley in Hertfordshire, on July 17, 1798, by St. John's 
College, Cambridge. 

While there is r\o proof oi a lineal or collateral relation- 
ship to Armigel or Sir William Wade, there is more than 
a mere probabilit}*. I am inclined to believe these Wades 
descend from Thomas Wade, son of Armigil and a Reader 
in the Law. From an early date there were Wades at or 
near Braughing. In the church of the adjoining parish of 
Stand<)n, under the effigies of a man in armor, are these 

arms and this inscription in black letter : Arms : on 

a bend , 3 hawks' lures , within a bordure , 

charged with roundlets. 

" Thy lymes, O Wade yt lately death hatli slaine 
Under thys stone entered here remaine, 
Thy sowle discharged of her bourden great, 
Hath made her flight to God in his high state, 
Thou doost conquere, and yet conquered art; 
Death j^eld to' thee, and thou unto Death's dart; 
Thy bodie is to greedye worms a prey. 
Thy sowle with God in Heaven dwell alway. 

Vivit post funera virtus 
The IVth day of Septemb., ann. MDcVVII (1557). 

This (Guy) Wade was probably the same man who, on 
September 13, 155 1, was refused a joint patent with Sir 
Mauryce Dennys, in the office of Chirographer, and who, on 
August 17, 1553, and described as of the Inner Temple, 
gave bond in ^100 to the Star Chamber to appear before 
the Privy Council and answer charges (See Dasent's Acts 
of the Privy Council). A fragmentary pedigree appears 
later. 

lot. George Wade (son of Rev. William), born 1767; was 
an attorney practising at Dunmow, in Essex, about 
twenty miles from Braughing. 



128 The Wade Genealogy. 

Married: — Frances Barbara de Vins [s) about 1795. 
(She born November 11, 1775; baptized St. James" 
Church, Piccadilly, London, December ii, 1775). 

Issue : 

105. William Thomas Wade, b. Nov. 9, 1796. 

106. Frances Harriet Wade, b. 1197; d. Jan. 4, 1880, unm. j 

bur. Braughing. 

107. Sophia Leonora Wade, b. Jan. 14, 17J9; d. May 18, 

1825; bur. Dunmow. 

108. Catherine Selina Wade, b. 1800; m. William Chrjstie 

of Balchrj'stie. Scotland; d. at Great Bookham, 
1889. 

109. Mary Ann Wade, b. 1801 ; bnr. at Dunmow, aged & 

months. 

110. Emma Fitzjohn Wade, b. Aug. 17. 1802; d. Jan. 13, 

1891, uum. ; bur. Great Bookham. 
HI. Elizabeth Wade, b. Jan. 15, 1804; d. March 13, 1819; 
bur. at St. Lawrence, Eamsgate. 

112. George de Yins Wade, b. 1805. 

113. Charles James Wade, b. 1807. 

114. Charlotte Julia Wade, b. 1808; m. Dec. 22, 1825, Sir 

John Maryon- Wilson. Baronet; d. March 8, 1895. 

115. Armigel Wade, b. 1809: d. Oct. 31, 1842; bur. at Kensal 

Green. 

116. Francis Montresor Wade, b. 1810; officer in British 

Army, 44th Regiment; perished in the retreat 
through the Khyber Pass, India, in 1841. 

117. John AValter Wade. b. 1812: d. in Edinburg, aged 18. 

118. Margaret Ann Wade, b. 1813; m. Edward Humphrey 

Wiggett. 

119. Eachel Susanna Wade, b. 1814; d. unm., 1895; bur. 

at Dunmow. 

120. Barbara Wade, b. 1817; d. Jan. 4, 1883, unm. 

(s) Jacques de Vins, ' Seigneur de Tillette en Nivernois partie de 
Courvon I'orguelleux au Village d'aurore et d' election de Clamecy,' 
left France on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Oct. 22, I680), 
and fled to England with his wife, Marie de Coton. His four sons 
were Claude Charles, who married Henriette Villeneuve (and of 
whom hereafter), Charles Louis, who became minister of the French 
Church of St. Patrick, Dublin (died without issue), and Isaye Francois, 
a lieutenant colonel in the service of the Elector of Saxony, (died in 
Saxony without issue) . Claude Charles de Vins' son Richard m arried 
Catherine Cox, and his daughter, Frances Barbara, married George 
Wade. A Wade family tradition as to Sir William Wade saving the 
life of Le Sieur de Vins at the massacre of St. Bartholomew (Aug. 
24, 1572). is easily disposed of bv counting the generations and allow- 
ing thirty years for each. Sir William Wade's own MS. notes in 
Eberus' Calendar would indicate 1574 as the date of his starting to 
Franqe (see ante, p. 103), Arms of de Vins {en Provence): D'azur a 
une tour d'argent sur une terrasse de meme, accostee de deux etoiles 
d'or; ecartele d'Affout. 




Alexander Hamilton Wade. (New Jersey family.) 



Famous English Wades. 129 

George Wade died at Dunmow, Essex, December 10, 
1839. His widow died there August 4, 1855, aged 80 years. 
104. FiTZjOHN Wade (son of William). 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue: — 

121. William O. Wade, b. 1885, at Fort William, Bengal, 

India. 

122. Christiana Wade, b. at Fort William, Bengal ; 

m. General Elliot Minto Playfair, 9l8t (Argyll- 
shire) Regt. ; d. Oct. 2, 1892, at St. Andrews. 
Fifeshire. 

123. Francis M. Wade, b. ; murdered by Nana Sahib 

at Cawnpore, India. Jan. 11, 1857; officer in 
British Army. 

Fitzjohn Wade was an officer in the British Army sta- 
tioned in India, the Isle of Man and Heligoland. Little is 
known of him. 



105. William Thomas Wade (son of George), born at 
Dunmow, Essex, November 9, 1796. 

Married : — Jane Ler Tucker, at Christ Church, vSt. 
Pancras, London, December 20, 1855. 

fssue : — 

124. Frances Barbara Wade. 

125. William de Vins Wade, b. May 27, 1859, at Dunmow. 

126. Armigel Walter Wade. 

William Thomas Wade was a celebrated attorney, prac- 
tising and residing at Dunmow, Essex. He died there 
October 2, 187 t. His widow was living there in 1897. 

112. George de Vins Wade (son of George), born 1805; 
resided at Baldock, in the County of Hertford. 
Married : — Ann Hicks of Baldock. 

Issue : — 

127. George Herbert Wade of Chislehurst, Kent ; sur- 

geon. 

128. Ann Wade. 

129. Frances Wade, d. at Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 16, 1886. 

130. William Wade. 

131. Louisa Wade, m. Leonard Grant. April 22, 1884. 

132. Claude Wade. 



130 The Wade Genealogy. 

George de Vins Wade died . His wife died December 

18, 1895, aged 72; buried at Chislehurst, Kent. 

113. Charles James Wade (son of George), born at Dun- 
mow, January 19, 1807. 

Married : — Maria Cluet Rawes, at Shaftesbury, May 
15, 1838. 

Issue : — 

133. Margaret Frances de Vins Wade, b. Feb. 23, 1839; 

m. Jan. 21, 1862, H. M. Pryor (60th Rifles). 

134. George Cholwich Wade, b. April 11, 1840. 

135. Armigel Wade, b. March 2. 1843. 

136. Ahce Maria Wade, b. Dec. 9 1845; m. Oct. 17, 1866, 

J. E. Lnry : m. (2) Apr. 27. 1878, Thomas Algernon 
Elwell. 

137. Florence Wade, b. Nov. 28,1849; m. Aug. 1, 1877, 

J. W. Marshall (60th Eifles). 

138. Charles Aubrey Wade, b. Mar. 29, 1851. 

139. Francis William Wade. b. April 22, 1854. 

140. Eleanor Maud Wade, b. Jan. 17, 1856; unm. 

141. Emma Caroline Wade, b. Sept. 24, 1858 ; mar. R. R. 

Elwell, at Lower Gravenhurst, June 27, 1877. 

142. Henrietta Nesta Wade, b. Nov. 11, 1861; m. Herbert 

Pryor ; m. (2) E. C. Dawson, Feb. 22, 1896. 

The Reverend Charles James Wade, graduated B. A. 
from Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained Deacon 
by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, April 22, 1832, and priest 
by the same bishop, April 7, 1833. He held the curacies 
of Wyke Champflower in the County of Somerset, Brush- 
ford, near Dulverton, in the same county, Shaftesbury in 
Dorsetshire and the vicarage of Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, 
for many years. He died July, 1896, leaving a widow to 
survive him. In addition to the above, his wife bore 
seven other children who died in infancy. 

116. Francis Montresor Wade (son of George), born 
1810. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

143. . 

Francis Montresor Wade was an officer in the 44th Regi- 
ment, and died January '12, 1841, in the disastrous retreat 
from Cabul, Afghanistan. It was an ideal soldier's death, 




The Wade Horn, iu the possession of William de Vins Wade, Esq., 

Dunmow. Essex, England. 



Famous English Wades. 131 

guarding (alas I in vain) the women, children and unarmed 
camp-followers, even if America's only political colonel, 
W. J. Bryan, would term it " walking about in idleness." 

125. William de Vins Wade (son of William Thomas), 
born at Dunmow, May 27, 1859. 

Married: — Alice Mary Woodman, at Pontesbury, 
Salop, April 19, 1893. (She was born November 
29, 1867). 

Issue : — 

144. -. 

William de Vins Wade is a Solicitor of the Supreme 
Court of Judicature in England, living at Dunmow, Essex, 
in 1900. He has recently restored the tomb of Sir William 
Waad, and possesses the curious Wade Horn, of which an 
illustration appears in this part. Of this horn he is only 
able to say that it has been handed down as an heirloom 
for several generations, but for how many he is not 
informed, that it bears the inscriptions " Wada, 8th centu- 
ry, Waad, 1 6th century, AVade;" and that no zoologist has 
examined it to determine if it be rhinosceros horn. To 
the curious, the association of family fortunes with horns 
will recall the Horn of Uhland, The Luck of Edenhall, and 
the Oldenburg Horn (a replica of which last given by a 
generous merchant prince of New York, Edward Kemp, 
forms one of the most valued trophies of the 7th Regiment 
of National Guard of the State of New York). All these 
have an elfin donor as an origin, and the Wade Horn a 
Scandinavian Saga as sponsor. 

126. Armigel Walter Wade (son of William Thomas) 
born . 

Married : — - 

Issue : — 

145. . 



Emigrated to the State of Iowa, where he is a farmer. 



132 The Wade Genealogy. 

134. George Cholwich Wade (son of Charles James), 

born April 11, 1840. 

Married : — Anna Margaret Mary (daughter of Hora- 
tio Warren) at Langport, Somerset, June 8, 187 1. 

/ss/ie : — 

146. Barbara Mary Gwendoline Wade, b. at Shefford, 

Bedford, June 8, 1872. 

147. A son, b. at Barmouth, South Wales, Nov. 7, 1873. 

148. A son, b. Nov., 1879. 

Mrs. George C. Wade died at Burnham, Somerset, 
November 25, 1879. 

135. Armigel Wade (son of Charles James), born March 2, 

1843- 
Married : — Marion Bleaymire, at Clifton, Bedford- 
shire, April 7, 1869. 

Issue : — 

149. .\rmigel Bleaymire Wade, b. Feb. 28, 1870; res. 

60 Cromwell Road, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Ire- 
land. 

150. George Aubrey Wade, b. May 3, 1871; res. Tallan- 

gate, Victoria, Australia. 

151. Jean de Vins Wade, b. May 18, 1872; d. Aug. 5, 1889; 

bur. at Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 

152. Walter Sterling Wade, b Oct. 8, 1873. 

153. Marion Ethel W^ade, b. Dec. 21, 1874. 

154. Reginald Colquhoun Wade, b. Dec. 10, 1876: d. July 

18, 1880 ; bur. at Hitchin. 

155. Helen Kathleen Wade, b. May 23, 1878. 

Armigel AVade resides at Julians road, Stevenage, Hert- 
fordshire, England, and is a Solicitor of the Supreme 
Court. 

138. Charles Aubrey Wade (son of Charles James), born 
at Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, March 29, 1851. 

Married: — Sarah Crouch at Ridgmount, Bedfordshire, 
January i, 1878. 

Issue : — 

156. Charles James Aubrey Wade. 

157. Armigel de Vins Wade. 

158. Alexander Gawthrop Wade. 

159. Audrey Daisy Wade. 

160. Cecil Henry Wade. 

161. Harold Walter Wade. 

162. Hugh Robert Wade. 





Arms and Crest of Wade of Kinge Cross, Yorkshire, England. 



'' Famous English Waoes. 133 

Charles Aubrey Wade resides at Henfield, in the County 
of Sussex, and is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of 
Judicature in Eng-land. 

WADE OF KINGECROSSE, YORKSHIRE. 

That another and notable family of Wades was earlj^ 

settled in Yorkshire appears from the Visitation of that 

county made by Sir William Dugdale in 1665. (See 

Suttees Society, Vol. XXXVI, p. 32, The Genealogist, Vol. 

XIII, pp. 1 1 2-1 15, and Thoresby's History of Leeds, 2nd 

Edition. t8i6. p. 153). 

Thoresby says, under New Grange: "The pleasant seat 
of Benjamin Wade, Esquire, Justice of the Peace for the 
West Riding. The house was built by a predecessor of 
both his names in 1626, who placed this inscription on 
the front: ' Except the Lord build the house they labour 
in vain that build it. It is the Lord that keeps thee going 
out and in. B. W. 1626." Over the north door, where 
the poor received their alms, is engraven: 

' ' If thou shalt find a house built to thy mind, without thy cost. 
Serve thou the more God and the poor. My labour is not lost." 

This family of New Grange was so remakably zealous 
in the service of King Charles I, that they sold ^^500 per 
annum to serve those occasions. In 1752, Walter Wade, 
Esquire, rebuilt the house." 

Thoresby commences his pedigree of Wade with one John 
AVade of Coventry as the common ancestor, but adduces no 
authority for his statement. For arms he assigns to these 
Wades: Azure, within a bordure, argent, upon a bend, 
or, two gillyflowers proper. On turning to the Herald's 
Visitation, as amplified by Mr. J. W. Clay, F. S. A., in The 
Genealogist, we find the following arms and pedigree: 

Skyrack Wapentake. Leeds, 4 Apr., t666. 

WADK OF kin(;ecrosse. 

Arms: on a bend two gyllyflowers proper, a 

bordure engraved 

Crest : — A grififin's head erased in the beak a gylly- 

flower proper. 

No proof nuade of these arms. 



134 The Wade Genealogy. 

200. Robert Wade of King Crosse, Halifax. 
Married: 

Issue : — 

201. Robert Watle of Field House, Sowerby, Yorks; bur. 

at Halifax, Dec. 5, 1594. Inquisition post mortem, 
dated April 28 (37 Elizabeth), (1595). 

202. Richard Wade of Sowerby : yeoman. 

203. Anthony Wade. 
20-4. Henry Wade. 

205. Margaret Wade, m. (1) Edward Ferrer: m. (2) John 
Hanson. 



202. Richard Wade (son of Robert) of Sowerby, York- 
shire, yeoman. 

Married : — Agnes Ferrer (?) at Halifax, June x8, 1555. 

Issue : — 

206. Samuel Wade of Quickstavers, b. 1562. 

Richard Wade died before May 6, 15S7, when an inqui- 
sition post mortem was held as to his estates. 

204. Henry Wade (son of Robert) of King Crosse, near 
Halifax. 
Married: — Elizabeth Ramsden (buried at Halifax, 
July II, 1600). 

Issue : — 

207. Anthony Wade of King Crosse. 

208. William Wade of Ballgrene, in Sowerby, near Hali- 

fax, 

209. Judith Wade, m. Robert Dene of Exley, Yorks. 

210. Mary Wade, m. Edward Longbotham of Longbotham, 

Yorks . 

Henry Wade was buried at Halifax, July 28, 1605. His 
will, dated May 4, 1604, was proved at York, January 28, 
1605, and mentions his daughters Judith' and Mary. 

206. Samuel Wade (son of Richard), born 1562, of Quick- 
stavers; buried at Halifax, April r6, 1596. His will 
is dated April 13, 1596. He probably died with- 
out issue. 



Famous English Wades. 135 

207. Anthony Wade (son of Henry) of King Crosse. 

Married : — Judith (daughter of Tho. Foxcrofte) of 
New Grange, at Leeds, November 3, 1590. 

Issue : — 

311. Benjamin Wade, b. 1592. 

212. William Wade, bapt. at Halifax, March 15, 1594-5. 

213. Elizabeth Wade, m. Cotton Home of Wakefield at 

Hahfax, March 7, 1618-4. 

214. Sarah Wade, bapt. at Halifax, July 4, 1596-; m. John 

Hargreves of Leeds. 

215. Judith Wade, bapt. at Halifax, April 30, 1598: m. (1) 

Eev. Henry Power; m. (2) Joseph Stocke. 

216. Anthony Wade, bapt. at Hahfax, Aug. 26. 1599. 

217. Prescilla Wade. bapt. at Halifax, May 10, 1601 ; m. 

Will Favour, citizen of London. 

218. Susan Wade, bapt. at Hahfax, Sept. 9, 1602; m. Dr. 

Jennison of Newcastle-on-Tyne. 

219. John Wade. bapt. at Halifax, Feb. 6, 1603-4. 

220. Robert Wade. bapt. at Hahfax, July 7; bur. there 

July 14, 1605. 
• 221. Richard Wade, bapt. at Hahfax, March 25, 1607. 

Anthony Wade purchased the house at New Grange, 

of Isaac Foxcroft. He was buried at Halifax, June 25, 

1616. His will, dated May 24, was proved at York, 

December 28, 1616. In it he mentions, among others, his 

sons William, Anthony and Richard. 

208. William Wade (son of Henry) of Ballgrene, vSowerby, 

near Halifax. 

Married : — Mary (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

322. Robert Wade; wiU proved 28 Aug., 1617, dated April 
2, 1616. 

223. Henry <Wade. 

224. Judith Wade. 

225. Sarah Wade. 

226. Mary Wade. 

227. Anne Wade. 

William Wade's will is dated April 27, 1593, and was 
proved at York, June 28, 1594. In it (amongst others), 
he mentions his sons and daughters, Henry, Judith, Sarah, 
Mary and Anne. 

211. Benjamin Waue (son of Anthony) of New Grange, 
born 1592. 



136 Thk Wapk Genealogy. 

Married: — Edith (dauo^hter of John Shaw) of Leeds, 
baptized at Leeds, November 30, 1595. 

Jssi/c : — 

None. 
Benjamin Wade was a merchant and Mayor of Leeds in 
1632 and 1633. He left ^200 by his will to purchase a 
rent charge of ;i^io for the minister of Headingley Chapel, 
and died without issue, Februarys, 1671, aged 81 years, 
and is buried at Headingley. His wife was buried there 
January 2, 1652 {Ade/ Register). Benjamin built the house 
at New Grange referred to in the extract from Thoresby. 

219. ]oHN Wade (son of Anthony), baptized at Halifax. 
Februar}' 6, 1603-4. 

Married: — Mary (daughter of Anthony Waterhousc) 
of Woodhouse, Yorkshire (baptized at Halifax; 
married there. April 6, 1630). 

Issue : — 

328. Benjamiu Wade, d. num. 

329. Autbony Wade, b. 1636. 

280. John Wade (d. , saj'S Thoresby, without issue). 
231. Judith Wade, bapt. at Halifax, Mar. 7. 1632 3; d. 
unm. 

332. John Wade. 

John Wade died about 1645. 

228. Benjami.n Wade (son of John) of Leeds and Burle\'. 

Married: — Dora (sister of William Jackson) of Dublin, 
at York Minster, March 28, 1703. 

Jssue : — 

333. Mary Wade. 

334. Anne Wade. 

Benjamin Wade was buried at Headingley, December 5, 
1753, His widow Dorothy was buried there April 12, 

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9. Anthony Wade (son of John), born about 1636. 

Married: — Mary (daughter of John Moore) of Green- 
head, Lancashire. 




Edward Wade, born at Loudouderry, Irelaud, IHli). 



Famous English Wadf.s. 137 

Issue: — 

235. Benjamiu Wade, b. 1665. 
Anthon)^ Wade was Mayor of Leeds in 1676. He died 
December 14, 1683, acjed 49, and was buried at Head- 
ingley. 



232. JOHN Wadk (son of John). 

Married : — Hannah (daughter of John Milner). 

Issue : — 

236. Benjamin Wade of Leeds and Burley (possibly the 
ancestor of the New Jersej^ Wades, as no further 
trace is found of him in England). 



235. Benjamin Wadk (son of Anthony), born 1665. 

Married : — Ann (eldest daughter of Walter Calverley 
Esq.) of Calverley (born 13, baptized 27 December, 
1663; married April 7, 1684: buried May 30. 1705; 
all at Calverley.) 

Issue : — 

237. Calverley Wade. b. Feb. 3, 1084: d. J703. 

238. Benjamin Wade, b. May 22, 1686 ; d. June 30, f719. 

239. Thompson Wade, b. May 9, 1687 ; a captain in the 

army ; d. at Brussels, Nov. 9, 1709. 

240. Henry Wade, bapt. Aug. 1, 1689. 

241. Mary Wade, b. Sept. 23, 1690: m. Morehouse. 

242. Anne Wade, b. June 11, 1693 ; m. Thomas Grosvenor.. 

243. Frances Wade, b. Nov. 15, 1694: m. Croft Preston, 

(Mayor of Leeds, 1715, eldest son of John Preston 
of Leeds; merchant: mayor. 1692), and had issue. 
Wade Preston. 

244. Walter Wade, b. Aug. 19. 1696. 

Benjamin Wade lived at New Grange, and was a Justice 
of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was 
buried at Headingley, May 19, 1716. 



244. Walter Wade (son of Benjamin) of New Grange, 
Esquire, born August 19, 1696. 

Married: — Beatrix (daughter of Benj. Killingbeck) of 
Allerton Grange. 



138 The Wade Genealogy. 

Issue :-- 

245. Benjamin Wade, d. an infant. 

246. Walter Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Nov. 1, 1722. 

Walter Wade was Mayor of Leeds in 1757. He was 
fined for refusing to serve as mayor in 1759. 

246. Walter Wade (son of Walter) of New Grange, 
Esquire, baptized at Headingley, November i, 
1722. 

Married: — Anne (daughter of Robert Allanson, 
Esquire) of Royd, Halifax. (She died January 7, 
1809). 

Issue : — 

247. Walter Wade, bur. at Headingley, Dec. 8, 1753 ; d. 

young. 

248. Eobert Wade, bur. at Headingley, Dec. 23. 1753 ; d. 

young. 

249. Benjamin Wade, bapt. April 15. 1759 ; bur. Oct. 7, 

1801. 

250. Ann Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Feb. 18, 1756 ; m. 

Thos. Lloyd, Lieut. Colonel Leeds Militia Volun- 
teers. Issue : George and Ann Lloyd. 

251. William Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Dec. 9, 1762. 

252. Thompson Wade, bapt. at Headingley, June 7, 1765 ; 

bur. there Feb. 2, 1828. 

Walter Wade was buried at Headingley, December 16, 
1771. His widow (?) of Well wood, Yorkshire, was buried 
there January 14, 1809. 

249. Benjamin Wade (son of Walter) of New Grange, 
Esquire, born April 15, 1759. 
Married: — Arabella (daughter of Captain William 
Martin, R. N.). 

Issue : — 

253. Harriot Wade, bapt. at Headingley, March 22, 1784; 

d. young. 

254. Elizabeth Wade, bapt. at Headingley, March 30, 1785 ; 

d. young. 

255. Arabella Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Feb. 24, 1786 ; 

d. young. 

256. Frances Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Nov. 22, 1787: 

m. Oct. 7, 1817, at St. George's, Hanover Square, 
London, to Captain John Bastard, R. N., M. P. for 
Dartmouth ; he d. 1835. 



Famous English Wades.. 139 

357. Mary Anne Wade, bapt. at Headingley, May 14, 1789 ; 
m. Oct., 1828, at St. George's, Hanover Square, 
London, to Major John Neave Wells, R. E. (son of 
Admiral Wells). 

Benjamin Wade was buried at Headingley, April 30, 1792. 

251. William Wade (son of Walter). 

Married: — Henrietta (daughter of Sir John Smith, 
Bt.) of Newland Park. 

Issue .- -? 

258. 

259. Nathaniel Wade (son of ) of Burley, farmer. 

Married: — Elizabeth (buried at Headingley, Jan- 
uary 29, 1798). 

Issue : — 

260. Benjamin Wade, bapt. at Headingley, June 23, 1763, 

261. Priscilla Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Feb. U, 1765. 

262. Dorothy Wade, bapt. at Headingley, May 8, 1766 ; 

bur. there, Nov. 23, 1781. 

263. Elizabeth Wade, bur. at Headingley, Aug. 24, 1780. 

Nathaniel Wade was buried at Headingley, October 6, 
1800. 

Around Leeds the Wades were very numerous. Wade 
Browne, Esquire, was twice Mayor of Leeds, serving until 
1804. By his will, in 1821, he founded several charities at 
Chapel Allerton. Parson's History of leeds, 2 Vols. (1834), 
p. 97, supplies an early instance of the name in stating 
that Thomas Wade, by his will dated in 1530, left a portion 
of his estate for the repair of roads around Leeds. The 
parish of Harewood, eight miles north of Leeds, also has a 
charity fund called Wade's charity. 

THE WADES OF THE WEST COUNTRY. 

Of high antiquity indeed was the Wade Family of Corn- 
wall and Devonshire, antedating in this beauteous Beer- 
sheba of England, all records of the Northumbrian and 
Yorkshire houses. Holding as a family tradition a lineal 
descent from the Hebrew patriarch Benjamin (!), the 



140 ,The Wade Genealogy. 

family is traceable in the earliest records of the Count3' of 
Cornwall, settling- there shortly after its conquest by King 
Egbert, in the early part of the ninth century. That the 
Wades were men of note and prominence in the west 
country, is evident from the fact that Wadelus, a Saxon, 
owned Wadefaste, in the parish of Whitstone, Cornwall, at 
the time of Edward the Confessor. The place is now 
called Wadfast. Dunkin's Cornish Brasses informs lis that 
Wadebridge in Cornwall, was anciently called Wade's 
Bridge, the reason being supplied by William of Worces- 
ter, in his Itinerary (written about A. D. 1350), in the 
statement that Wadebridge. a bridge of seventeen arches 
(over the river Camel), was situated near to the manor house of 
Wade. 

It seems that the elder branch of this famih^ was settled 
at Week St. Mary, Jacobstowe and Warbstowe, in North 
Cornwall, for many centuries and from Saxon times until 
its sole representative, John Wade, removed to Redruth, 
in the west of the same county. 

Sir John Maclean, in his History of the Deanery of Trigg 
Minor, Cornwall (Vol. Ill, p. 267), makes the following 
reference to the Wades : — 

"The family of Wade has held a reputable position in 
this district from a remote antiquity. William Wade was 
amerced to the subsidy in the parish of St. Advent in 1327. 
John Wade and Joanna, his wife, suffered a fine in certain 
lands in Canielford and Tregewe, in 1439. Henry Wade, 
as a kinsman and heir of John Trefrew, held lands of the 
manor of Helston in Trigg. Mar}^ relict of Henry Wade, 
married John Billing of Hengar, who in 1539, held in her 
right, lands of the same manor in Michaelstowe. John 
Wade was a trustee of lands of William Carmynowe of 
St. Kew. in 1523, and was probably the same man who 
was Vicar of Michaelstowe in 1536, and was buried there 
in 1562. Henry Wade, in 1524, was amerced to the sub- 
sidy in the parish of Michaelstowe, and one of the same 
name in vSt. Teath. John Wadde was in Tintagel, as was 
also one of the same name in 1543. Walter Wade held a 




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Claude Fitzroy Wade, Escinire. Barrister at law. Sou of Sir Claude 
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Famous English Wades. 141 

tenement of the manor of Colquitte in 1575. Wade is one 

of the earliest names in St. Kew parish registers, and also 

at Tintagel. John Wade was buried at Tintagel, 1562. 

Anthony Wade was buried at Tintagel in 1667. Pentecost 

Wade was a juror of the Assession Court of the manor of 

Tintagel in 1617, at which time he held in right of his wife 

Jane, after the death of her former husband, John Symons. 

of that manor, part of Trewis. John Wade, born 1614, had 

two sons. Ambrose (burgess of Camelford, r66i, Mayor 

1684, his wife Margaret was buried at Lanteglos in 1680). 

and William, who had two sons, John and William. The 

issue of this John became extinct in the male line in his 

son, William (Mayor of Bodmin in 1756)." 

In Lanteglos churchyard, Cornwall, is a stone inscribed 

in double lines, formerly an altar tom.b in the churchyard. 

The inscription reads : Here lyeth ye body of Ambrose 

Wade, who died the Xday of March in the yere of our Lord 

anno 1669. Here lyeth ye body of Margaret Wade, ye wife 

of Ambrose Wade, who died the 8th of November in the 

year of our Lord God anno 1680. 

By Faith so ferm, by Hope so bold 
By Love so true, Wee Christ be-hold. 

In St. Advent churchyard, a broken slab, removed from 

the church, is circumscribed in capital letters: " Here 

lieth the body of Anthony Wade, deceased, which was 

buried the twentieth day of May, anno Domini 1667." 

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281. William W^ade of Redruth, born at Week St. Mary. 
Married : — Mary Brown at Redruth. 

Issue: — 

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283. Wade. 

William Wade died at Redruth, aged 84; his wife died 
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144 The Wade Genealogy. 

282. William Wade, born at Redruth, March 29, 181 9. 

Married: — Mary Anne Annear, at St. Anstell, 
August, 1848. (She died July 20, 1894). 

Jssue : — 

284. Clara Mary Wade. b. July 1849 ; m. 1S76, 8tali Sur- 

geon Septimus Evans, R. N., who perished in the 
blowing up of H. M. S. Doterel, April, 1891. 

285. Elizabeth Wade. b. 1853; m. 1870. William John 

Finch of Bristol. 

286. William Cecil Wade, b. at Redruth, Feb. 1:J. 1854. 

William Wade died at Teignmouth, Devon, May 29, 
1884. He was proprietor and master of Redruth Grammar 
School from 1842 to 1862, and later a whole coal merchant 
and factor at Plymouth. He was well known in Cornwall 
as a Nonconformist, local preacher, and lecturer; was 
elected Vice-President of the Plymouth Reform League, 
and was present as a delegate at the Reform Demonstra- 
tion in Hyde Park, in 1867, "when Edmond Beales pulled 
the railings down." He is noted as the discoverer of a 
novel means for curing fevers by an external cooling lini- 
ment, which is locally well-known. 

283. Wade. 

Married : ■ — — . 

Jssue : — 

287. Charles Henry Wade of Barrow, Wade, Guthrie <t 

Co., of Manchester, New York, Chicago, etc., 
accountants. 

286. William Cecil Wade, born at Redruth, February 13, 
1854. 
Married: — Eliza Lenten Hooton. at Plymouth, 
December 11, 1876. 

Issue : — 

288. Editha Annie Wade, b. 1877; d. 1878. 

289. Millicent Wade. b. 1878. 

290. Cicily Muriel Wade, b. 1880 ; d. 1882. 

291. Claude Cecil Wade, b. 1882. 

292. Arthur Cecil Wade, b. 1887. 

293. Mabel Violet Wade, b. 1883, 

294. Muriel Ida Wade. I . • , ^„,j. 

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Famous English Wades. 145 

William Cecil Wade is a member of the Council of the 
Port of Plymouth Chamber of Commerce; is one of the 
Secretaries of the Devon and Cornwall Natural History- 
Society; is a noted collector of swords, armor and book- 
plates, and is the author of The Symbolisms of Heraldry, 
Some Extinct Cornish Families, and several other works of 
standard value. 

287. Charles Henry Wade. 
Married : — 

Issue : — 

296. Charles Henry Wade, surgeon, Torquay, Eng. 
397. James D'Ewes Wade, Manchester. 

Charles Henry Wade is a chartered accountant, a mem- 
ber of the international firm of Barrow, Wade, Guthrie & 
Co. of Manchester, New York, Chicago, etc. 

■ WADE OF FILTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 

To the researches of David Treharne Newton-Wade of 
Newport, Monmouthshire, Solicitor of the Supreme Court 
of Judicature in England, the compiler is indebted for this 
extended pedigree of an ancient and honorable West 
Country branch of the family. To this branch belonged 
an early Mayor of Bristol, an officer and confidant of stern 
Oliver Cromwell, and Colonel Nathaniel Wade, the ill-fated 
Monmouth's companion in arms at Sedgmoor. It com- 
prises men who saw the "circuit of the Shambles," and 
heard the Butcher Jeffreys fulminate against the West 
Country's " Tylees, Roes and Wades" (Roberts' £(/e of 
the Duke of Monmouth). Quoting Mr. Newton- Wade, the 
account runs as follows : 

The Wade Family of Filton, in the County of Glouces- 
ter, is of considerable antiquity. It will be seen from the 
following pedigree that descent is traced from Thomas 
Wade of Filton. living in 1560. The arms borne by the 
family are, azure on a saltire, between 4 fleur de lis, or, 5 
escallops of the field. The date of the grant of these arms 
cannot be traced, but they have always been borne by the 

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146 The Wade Genealogy. 

Wade Family of Filton as appears from the seals on several 
ancient deeds relating to the Manor of Blaisdon, in the 
County of Gloucester, at one time belonginj^ to the family, 
and by monuments in the churches of Frampton-on-Severn 
and Henbury, in the County of Gloucester, recording the 
deaths of members of the family. 

The following confirmation of such arms and grant of 
a crest, appears in the Harleian MS., 1470, folios 49-161, 
in the British Museum, and also in the College of Arms in 
London, viz : 

"To all Nobles and Gentles to whom these presents shall 
come: William Camden. Esquire, alias Clarencieux, King 
of Armes of the South East and West parts of this Realme 
of England from the River of Trent Southwards sendeth 
this due commendation and greeting : Know ye Whereas 
auntiently from the beginning it hath byn a custome in 
all cuntryes and common wealtheswell gouverned that the 
bearying of certaine markes in shields commonly called 
Armes have byn and are the liuely signes and demonstra- 
tions either of proess and valour atcheived in the feild by 
martiall men in tymes of Warre or ells the rewardes of 
virtue for the good lyfe and conwersation of others in 
tymes of Peace. Amonge the which number for that I find 
William Wade, the sonne of William Wade, the son of 
Robert of Bildeston in the County of Suffolk, Gent., who 
beareth Azure (on ye) Saltour or, five escallopes of the 
first between fower fflower de luces of the second and 
wanting to his said Coate or Armes a convenient Creast or 
Cogenzance fytt to be bourne as divers auntient coats doe, 
hath requested me the said Clarencieux by virtue of my 
office to appoint him such a one as he may lawfully beare 
without wrong doing or preiudice to others. The whole 
according to his iust request I have accomplished and 
graunted viz : on a wreath of his cullors a Talbott argent 
the eares and flacks of hayres redd, about his neck a collor 
and Case, gould as more plainly doth it appear in the 
margent. All which Armes and Creaste I the said Clar- 
encieux doe by theis presents ratifie and confirme unto the 
said William Wade and to his posterity for ever, and that 
it shall be lawful for him and them to use beare and shew 
forth the same in signett, sheilde, Ensigne, Coate Armor 
or otherwise at his and their free libertye and pleasure 
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Famous English Wades. 147 

said King- of Armes have here unto sett my hande and 
seale of office the Eight day of November 1604 and in the 
second yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James 
by the Grace of God King of England, ffrance and Ireland 
Defender of the faithe &c., and of Scotland the Eighte 
and thirtith. 

WILLIAM CAMDEN, 
Clarencieux King of Armes." 

The following Pedigree appears in the Harleian MS. in 
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Whether the Wades of Filton were a branch of the 
family of Wades of Bilston, Suffolk, has not been ascertained, 
but at present it is surmised that the Thomas Wade, the 
fourth son of Robert Wade of Bilston above mentioned, is 
one and the same person as Thomas Wade, the ancestor of 
the Wades of Filton mentioned in the following pedigree, 
and for the following reason, viz: — In an Indenture of 
Lease & Release dated 26 August 1680 and made between 
John Wade late of the Wyke in the parish of Arlingham 
and then of the City of Gloucester Esq. of the ist part 
William Rowles of The Cockshut and Thomas Pyeke of 
Little Dean of the 2nd part, Thomas Wade of the City of 
Gloucester son of said John Wade of the 3rd part, Anna 
Dunch of Radcott in Oxfordshire, Spinster, one of the 
daughters of John Dunch late of Pusey in Berkshire 
Esquire deceased of fourth part, and Oliver Cromwell of 
Hursley in the county of Southampton Esquire and 
Humphrev Gunter of Radcot aforesaid Gentleman of the ^th part ; 
certain lands in Gloucestershire were settled upon the said 
Thomas Wade and Anne Dunch, the said Oliver Cromwell 
and Humphrey Gunter being Trustees. It is supposed that 
this Humphrey Gunter was a descendant of the Sir William 
Gunter who married Mary Wade of Bilston, mentioned in 
the above pedigree. 



300. Thomas Wade of Filton and Bristol, gentleman (living 
in T560 and called " Thomas Wade ye elder "). 

Married : — Margaret (one of the daughters of 

Hollister) of Almondsbury. She purchased in A. D. 
1563-4 (jointly with John Hollister and Thomas 
Harper), a fourth part of the Manor of Broken- 
borough, in the County of Gloucester. 

Issue : — 

3Q1. John Wade. 

302. Thomas Wade, ''the younger." 

Thomas Wade died about 6 Elizabeth (/. c. 1563-4). 



150 The Wade Genealogy. 

301. John Wade of Filton and Bristol, gentleman, Mayor 

of Bristol in 1576. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

303. Thomas Wade. 

304. William Wade. 

John Wade died about 1576, or shortly thereafter. He 
was Mayor of Bristol in 1576. Very little is known of this 
man. He appears to have been one of the Overseers of the 
will of Walter West of the Parish of St. Thomas in Bristol 
(proved 6th of June, 1567), and Giles Hobbs, a vintner of 
Bristol, in his will (proved 24 November, 1576), gives Mr. 
John Wade a pecuniary legacy " to make merry amongst the 
parishoners of the Parish of St. Mary Porte." The follow- 
ing also appears in the Bristol Corporation Records, viz.: 
" For as much as the aforesaid Mayor (Wade) not being 
an austere man, did incline to LoUardism, which gave 
great offence and to let his influence, the Chamber revived 
an 'Act' ' that no person shall be Mayor more than once' 
having more regard for their own private fancies and inter- 
est than for that only they owe to the public, the which I 
have noted oft' times unbeknowing the cause thereof." 

302. Thomas Wade, "the younger," of Filton, gentleman, 

formed one of the homage of the Court Baron of 
the Manor of Horfield, County Gloucester, in 1560. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Ii,sue :— 

305. Thomas Wade. 
30(}. John Wade. 
307. William Wade. 

The date of Thomas Wade's death has not been ascer- 
tained. 

303. Thomas Wade of Filton and Henbury, in the County 

of Gloucester, gentleman. 
Married : — Margaret (daughter of ). 



Famous English Wades. 151 

Issue : — 

308. JohuWade. 

309. William Wade. 

310. Rowland Wade. 

311. Anne Wade, m Taylor. 

3ia. Mary Wade. 

Thomas Wade's will is dated 12 June, 1610; proved 

same year at Bristol. In it he mentions his wife Margaret. 

304. William Wade of Stoke Gifford, gentleman. 

Married : — ■ (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

313. Sarah Wade, who m. Walter Kemeys, second son of 

Roger Kemeys of Bedminster and de Wyke. (See 
Visitation of Gloucestershire in 1633). 

William Wade's will was proved at Bristol, 1610. He 

was buried at Almondsbury. 

305. Thomas Wade of Filton, called " the elder" in 1629. 

Married: — Margery (buried at Filton, May 

13, ^655). 

Issue : — 

314. Thomas Wade. 

315. Ehzabeth Wade. 

316. Margaret Wade. 

317. Johanne Wade. 

318. Agnes Wade. 

Thomas Wade's will is dated November i, 1629. It men- 
tions his wife Margery and his brother John. 

306. John Wade of Almondsbury. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

319. William Wade. 

320. Anne Wade. 
3ai . Grace Wade. 

322. Mary Wade. 

323. Fanny Wade. 

324. Elizabeth Wade. 

325. Katherine Wade. 

John Wade's will was proved at Bristol, 1637. In it he 
mentions all his children as above. 



152 The Wade Genealogy. 

307. William Wade of Almondsbury. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — ? 

326. . 

308. John Wade of Filton and Almondsbury, County of 

Gloucester, gentleman. 

Married: — Margaret (buried at Filton, Novem- 
ber 24, 1664). 
Issue : — 

327. John Wade. 

328. Thomas Wade. 

329. Nicholas Wade. 

330. Mary Wade, m. Greet. 

331. William Wade. 

The will of John Wade is dated Nov^ember 25, 1664 (the 
day after his wife's burial). It was proved at Bristol in 
1664. He was a tenant on the court rolls of the Manor of 
Horfield in the years 1652-3. 

309. William Wade of Filton and Henbury, County of 

Gloucester. 
Married: — Agnes Cromwell at Henbury Church. 

County of Gloucester, June 9, 1600. 
Jssue : — ? 



310. Rowland Wade. 
Married : 



Issue : — ? 
382. 



314. Thomas Wade of Filton. 

Married : — Sarah (buried at Filton, February 

14, 1691). 
Issue : — 

333. Thomas Wade. 

334. Sarah Wade, m. John Gunter. 

335. Hester Wade. 

336. Mary Wade, m. David Lie. 

337. Martha Wade. 

338. Abigail Wade, m. Thomas White. 




United States Senator Benjamin Franklin Wadk. The man who 
stopped the rout at Bull Run, and did more than many for the Flag. 
His father served at Bunker Hill. (Massachusetts family.) 



Famous English Wades. 153 

Thomas Wade was admitted on the court rolls of the 
Manor of Horfield, June 11, 1655. His will is dated April 
14, 1679; proved at Bristol, April 27, 1680. 

327. John Waue, sometime of Filton, afterwards of Little- 
dean, in the County of Gloucester, and subse- 
quently of the Wick House, Arlingham, in the 
County of Gloucester, Esquire. 




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Married: — Anne (daughter of ■ Lane), died 

March 19, 1678. and buried at St. vStephen's 
Church, Bristol. 

Issue : — 

339. Johu Wade of Filton and Bristol. 
840. Thomas Wade of Frampton-on-Severn. 

341. Nathaniel Wade (Colonel) of Bristol. 

342. William Wade of Bristol. 

John Wade was a Major in Cromwell's Army. He is the 
man mentioned in Thurlow's State Papers and Washburn's 
Bibliotheca Gloucestremis as the Deputy Governor who 
defended Gloucester against the Royalist Army in 1651, 
and was highly commended by Cromwell for the service. 
John Chaloner, the regicide, in his Short Treatise on the 
Isle of Man (1653), p. t6, states that Major Wade was then 
Governor of the Isle of Man. He died between August, 
1680, and March, 1681. 

The following are some few of the letters in the Public 

Record Office written by and to Major John Wade: 

Sir:— 

I had a meeting yesterday with Captain Nicholas con- 
cerninge the raisinge of forces for the defence of our coun- 
ty to which I answered him that there is no doubt if 
authority be given for that purpose and provision made 
for accommodation force will be speedily raised and 
therefore if you think it will be with anie advantage to 



154 The "Wade Genealogy. 

the publick noe doubt by God's assistance of a sufficient 
number shall be forthwith raised for the safekeeping of 
Gloucester whereby the horse heare may be spared for 
service abroad. 

I came to Gloucester this day being sent for by the 
Mayor and Aldermen of the City and am putting the well 
effected of the city in a position of defence which at pres- 
ent is foure hundred men. 

I doe think of going into the forest again to put things 
in the best condition possible. 

What you conceive me fitt or capable to do in order to 
the raisinge of men let me have command and authority 
and there shall be noe want in me. I conceive it were not 
amiss if there were a forbearance of raisinge of those for 
the present money being a precious thing with you, and 
raise iron a A'endible commodity. Your forge is on work. 
Thus deservinge your answer to what you shall think fitt 
and best. 

Your faithful servant, 

JOHN WADE. 
To the Right Hon'ble John 
DiSBROWE these be presented. 

Gloucester, 

March 20th, 1654. 
Sir:— 

I received a letter for Thomas Shewell of Bristol to pay 
me ;!^i,ooo towards carrying on castings in Forest Dean 
but it would save trouble if I might receive it from General 
Receiver of Gloucester. I carry on the business with great 
honesty and frugality. I desire order for disposal of 50 
tons of shot and directions whether I am to cast Ordnance 
for 2 ships building at Bristol by Mr. Hayley or whether 
he will prevail to get your great guns at Bristol as he has 
prevailed with you to buy his timber, a bill here and there, 
to the amazement of rational men while there are plenty in 
the Forest decaying. 

Two days after I got the order to preserve Whitemeads 
Park, some gallants came down to dispose of it but I 
cooled their courage by producing the order. The spoil 
carried on in the Forest makes my blood boil. 

Your faithfull Servant, 

JOHN WADE. 
To Col. John Clarke, 

Admiralty Commissioner 
at Whitehall. 



Famous English Wades. 155 

Bristol, 

Deer. 29th, 16155. 
May it please your Highness : — 

According to the best of my skill I have 
endeavoured to put the orders and instructions of your 
Highness and Counsel into execution and I have advised 
about a Sheriff of Gloucester and am ascertained that either 
Thomas Estcourt or Silvanus Wood Esq'r are fit for it. 

I must crave the liberty to acquaint your Highness that 
1 understodd that Lieutenant Col Briscoe was to be made 
Colonel and Major Wade Lieutenant Colonel but instead of that I 
hear that Major IVade is like to be put out of the Government of the 
Isle of Man but I hope this is not so. I beg your Highness that 
nothing jnay be done to the prejudice of poor Wade who is a faithful 
person and exceeding useful to your Highness and the Commonwealth 
in the County of Gloster and in the Forest of Dean. 
I beg your Highness' care of him and abide 
Your Highness humble Servant, 

JOHN DISBROWE. 
To His Highness 

Oliver, Lord Protector. 

Wade was Overseer and Receiver of Rents and Profits of 
his Majesty's Iron Works in the Forest of Dean in 1659, 
but in June, 1660, it appears from a State paper that Sir 
Hugh Middleton, Baronet, petitions " for the place of 
Overseer then held by Major John Wade, Commander of 
the County Troop in Gloucester" on the ground that 
Major Wade had the previous July kept Middleton 4 
months in close imprisonment for adhering to his Majesty 
and had several times ransacked his house. 

It is unfortunate that there is no existing record to show 
the date and place of burial of Major Wade. 

According to family tradition he was buried in Filton 
Church and a stone cofBn in the Church which was dug up 
many years ago was always thought by the family to have 
been the Major's coffin but the age for stone coffins was 
long prior to the Major's time. 

One of Filton Church Bells, cast in 1734, bears the 
name " Major Wade " inscribed on it, and is supposed to 
have been cast in memory of the Major. 

It appears from the Title Deeds relating to the Blaisdon 



1^6 The Wade Genealogy. 

Estate in Gloucestershire, which belonged to the Wade 
family, that the Major died between August, 1680, and 
March, 1681. His wife was Ann Lane of an ancient Glou- 
cestershire family, who was a member of the celebrated 
Broadmead Baptist Chapel, Bristol. The following relating 
to her is taken from the Broadmead Records : — 

Bristol this 22nd da)' of the fourth month June 1669. 
To any of the Churches of Jesus Christ where this bearer 
our sister may come — Grace and peace be multiplied unto 
you &c. We do hereby certify that this our beloved sister, 
Anne Wade, hath been for some time and still remains a 
member in fellowship with this Congregation in Bristol 
being one that is very dear unto us upon Christ's Account 
— We do therefore recommend her unto you beseeching 
you to receive her in the Lord and to admit her into com- 
munion and fellowship with you in all the ordinances and 
privileges of the house of God. So we remain your breth- 
ern in the faith and fellowship of the Gospel of Christ, 
Thomas Ewens Robert Simpson 

Edward Terrill George Robinson 

Thomas Elms William Dickason. 

July 22nd, 1673. 
Honoured dear and beloved Brethern and Sisters in our 
Lord Jesus Christ our hope 

In whom I heartily salute you and through whom I wish 
all health peace and prosperity to your souls and bodies 
with an increase of grace and comfort by the Spirit of 
holiness which I desire the Lord may pour upon you daily 
more and more filling you with all joy and peace that you 
may abound in all graces to his own praise and our ever- 
lasting consolation through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Beloved, I have received yours of the 27th of the month 
past accompanied with the blessed relation of God's gra- 
cious dealings with us in issuing his depriving us of our 
late blessed Pastor with the rest of his various dispensa- 
tions towards us unto a calm settlement under the conduct 
of another of his faithful servants; for which I desire with 
you to bless and praise His name and trust he will enable 
ns to improve this our summer of enjoyments so as to lay 
up such a stock of strength and holy courage as may carry 
us through what future winter of trial and tribulation he 
may please to bring over us. 

In answer to what you desire relating to the condition 
God by his providence has cast me in : — (i) I may say 




Major William Wade. U. S. A. The organizer of the present Ordnance 
Corps of the Army. ( New Jersey family. ) 



Famous English Wades. 157 

from experience that his compassions fail not but his 
mercies are renewed every morning; and that although he 
has cast my lot so that I sojourn as it were in Mesech, and 
dwell in the tents of Kedar, he does not leave me without 
such refreshings and supplies of strength from his Holy 
Spirit and by means of his servants whom his providence 
sometimes conducts to our habitation whereby he has 
hitherto enabled me to persevere in and hold fast that 
profession of faith of which you are witness. 

2. As to my participation of those ordinances Christ has 
instituted for our remembrance of him till his second 
appearing as often as distance of place and infirmity of 
body have permitted me I have had the enjoyment of them 
with that Church of Christ m Gloucester walking with Mr. 
Forbes to whom our deceased Pastor by word of mouth 
commend me as you also did by the original of the enclosed 
copy. 

So my beloved fellow labourers I bless God who has 
stirred you up to afford me so large testimonies of your 
Christian care and watchfulness over me although absent 
in body from you; and beg you that you would to your 
consolations and godly admonitions, your prayers to the 
Almighty for me that he would sanctify them to the use 
you have intended them and that he would keep me sted- 
fast to the end through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom I 
commend your souls and bodies and in whom I will ever 
send up my requests that we may be found at his coming 
those that earnestly longed for and loved his appearance. 

I remain, 
Your unworthy sister in the Lord, 

ANNE WADE. 
To the Church of Christ in Bristol 
walking with Mr. Thomas Hardcastle. 

328. Thomas Wade of Micheldean, County of Gloucester. 

Married : — ^Anne (daughter of ). 

Issue :— 

343. Thomas Wade. 

^T^T,. Thomas Wade of Filton. 

Married : — Mar}^ (daughter of ). 

Issue: — ? 

844. . 



158 The Wade Genealogy, 

Thomas Wade died May 20, 1731, and was buried at 
Filton. His widow died March 20, 1743, and the estate 
was forfeited to the Lord of the Manor for failure of a 
reversioner. 

339. John Wade of Filton and Bristol, gentleman, born 

Married: — I, Anne Baugh of Pershore, Worcester- 
shire and Twining, County of Gloucester, Novem- 
ber 12, 1660, at Pershore. 

Married : — II, Mary (died February 4, 1679). 

Married : — III, Martha (died April 10, 169s). 

Issue : — 

345. John Wade of Filton. 

346. Thomas Wade of Bristol. 

347. Sarah Wade, m. William Clutterbuck of Frampton- 

on-Severn Cd. June 25, 1685 ; bur. at Frampton). 

John Wade died April 13, 1705, aged 63; buried at 
Filton. 

340. Thomas Wade of Frampton-on-Severn, in the County 

of Gloucester. 



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Married: — Anna (daughter of John Dunch) of 
Pusey, Berkshire (died July 17, 1787; buried at 
Frampton-on-Severn). 

Issue : — 

348. John Wade of Gloucester. 

Thomas Wade died in 17 15, and was buried at St, Mary 

le Crypt in the City of Gloucester. His will was proved in 

the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 

1715. Anna Dunch was co-heiress with (her sister) the 



Famous English Wades, 159 

wife of the Protector Richard Cromwell, of Richard Major 
of Hursley, in the County of Southampton. (See Bigland's 
History of Gloucester'). 

341. Nathaniel Wade of Bristol, Esquire, Barrister at law. 
Colonel in Monmouth's Army, born about 1666. 



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Married: — Anne (daughter of Richard Vicris, Mayor 
of Bristol, in 1676). She died in 1735. 

Issue : — 

349. Hester Wade, m. Lawrence. 

350. Damaris Wade, m. John Coysgarn of Bristol, mer- 

chant. 

351. Anne Wade, m. (1) Daniel; m. (2) William Hibbs, 

Esq. of Clifton, Bristol, about 1723. 

Nathaniel Wade entered New Inn, on 11 June, 1673, and 
the Middle Temple, 16 June, 1681. As a young lawyer of 
the country party, and a frequenter, it would appear, of 
the Green Ribbon Club, he had some dealings with Richard 
Rumbold and other insurgent " republicans " in the spring 
of 1683. He was suspected of complicity in the Rye House 
Plot, and on the 23 June, a reward of ^100 was offered for 
his apprehension, together with Rumbold, John Rumsey, 
Richard Goodenough, and some other plotters. Three 
witnesses were found to give evidence against him, but he 
escaped to Holland, where he spent two years in an at- 
mosphere of whig intrigue, and according to his own 
account, acted as an emissary between Monmouth and 
Archibald Campbell, ninth Earl of Argyll. He sailed 
with Monmouth at the end of May, 1685, and landed at 
Lyme Regis on 11 June. Three days later he marched 
with Forde Grey, Earl of Tankerville, in the direction of 
Bridport, at the head of about three hundred infantry and 
took part in an indecisive and shambling encounter with 
the Dorset militia (London Gazette, 18 June, 1685). At 



i6o The Wade Genealogy. 

Taunton he first opposed Monmouth proclaiming- him.self 
King, but he subsequently overcame his republican scruples, 
fighting in the van at Sedgemoor as Colonel of Monmouth's 
regiment. A good pen picture of Wade appears in A. Conan 
Doyle's Micah Clarke. 

For a man bred to civic pursuits, he seems to have had 
in an unusual degree, that sort of ability and nerve which 
make a good soldier. Comimanding the infantry at the 
Battle of Sedgemoor. and in the several skirmishes prior to 
that event, he appears to have displayed great bravery, thus 
affording a contrast to Lord Grey. At the battle of Sedge- 
moor his regiment made a most stubborn resistance and 
were the last to give in, and only then for the want of 
ammunition ( v). 

After the Battle of Sedgeijioor he fled to Ilfracombe 
with fifty others, where they seized a vessel and put to sea, 
but were forced ashore again by two frigates. He was taken 
prisoner at Brendon, in Devonshire, on Saturday, July 26, 
1685, by Richard Powell, the Rector of the Parish, who 
was paid ;^ioo for his work. Wade was hiding at a farm 
called Farley, and, on Powell with others approaching to 
arrest him, he attempted to escape, but was shot through 
the back. He was disguised. On his head he had an 
ordinary hat, grey clothes, leather stockings, the soles of 
his shoes three inches thick and great nails in them. The 
Rector stated : "I took up his coat to see where the bullet 
lodged, and found that he had a good holland shirt on his 
back. I told him that this shirt did not belong to those 
clothes. He said his name was John Lane, but when his 
wound became worse he disclosed his proper one" (s). 

When lying wounded he promised to make a full discov- 
ery of all he knew if thereby he would get his pardon {a). 

(i/) Robert's Life of Moyimouth ; Wade's Confessions in Lans- 
downe MSS. ; James it's Account of Sedgemoor in Harleian MSS. 

[z] Wade's Confession; Letter of Powell in Lansdowne MS., No. 
1152. 

(a) A letter dated 30 July, 1685, from Cooke and Eavening, to Sir 
Bourchier Wrey. 





Arms and Crest of Wade of New Buckenham, County of Norfolk. Eugland. 

(See p. 66). 



Famous English Wades. i6i 

He was taken to London and imprisoned in Newgate, 
where James II visited him for the purpose of inducing 
him to give up the names of the persons connected with 
the Rebellion. 

Some of Wade's relatives, however, contrived to send him 
in the plaits of his linen, which was washed in the City, the 
names of those who were beheaded, and these he gave to 
the King, of course, without injury to anyone. "Your 
friends. Major Wade," said the King, " have long been 
with the dead," and finding he could learn no more from 
him, and probably thinking that Wade had given him 
what information he could, the King pardoned him (d). 

Nathaniel Wade's Confessions, in his own handwriting, 
are dated from Windsor the 4th October, 1685, and are to 
be found among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum. 
Macaulay quotes largely from them in his History of that 
period. 

He gave evidence against Henry Booth, Lord Delamere 
(afterwards Earl of Warrington), and doubtless aided the 
crown prosecutions in some other cases. (Howell, State 
Trials, Vol. Ill, p. 542). 

In January, 1687, James, anxious to win the good opin- 
ion of the dissenters, sent him to Bristol with the order of 
the council, for the " remodelling " of the corporation, and 
he presented his special commission under the privy seal 
to the Mayor on 4 February. In a second document, 
setting forth the new appointments. Wade himself, by way 
of reward, was nominated clerk of the city. His tenure of 
office did not survive the events of the following October, 
when John Romsey was reinstated (17 October); but he 
seems to have retained some position in Bristol, as in 
Queen Anne's charter to the city of 24 July, 1710, he was 
confirmed in his office of steward of the sheriff's court. In 
I 7 14, he headed the militia at Bristol against the Kingswood 
colliers. He resigned his municipal post after upwards of 
six years' service, early in 17 12. During 1711 he took 
part in building a bridge over the Froom at Wade street, 

(6") History of Bristol, by Nicholls and Taylor. 
[11] 



i62 The Wade Genealogy. 

Bristol, long- known as the " Traitor's Bridge " Wade died 
early in 1718, and was buried on 14 March, 1717-18, " at the 
foot of Mrs. Noble's tombstone." in RedcroaS street burial 
ground (Register). He was granted a commission as Major 
by Monmouth ''on ship-board," and he was spoken of in his 
later }^ears as " Major Wade." 

Nathaniel Wade appears at one time to have formed a 
project with John Ayloffe, William Penn, Thomas Merry 
and others, of emigrating to New Jersey, where he ex- 
pected to find or establish institutions better suited to his 
tastes than those of England. His brother, is alleged 
by some, to have gone to Pennsylvania about the time of 
the Rye-House Plot, sailing with William Penn on board 
the ship " Welcome," from Deal, on the 30th August, 1682. 
In his Confessions in the Lansdowne MSS., Wade says: 
"The persons to have gone to America were John 
Ayloffe, Roger, a Quaker; myself, Thomas Merry. The 
seven to have been concerned in the plantation as propri- 
etors were Edmund Walker, Edward Norton, Richard Nel- 
thorp, John Freke, Thomas Merry, R.obert West. William 
Penn and several other Quakers;" and taking this statement 
of intention as an actual fact, careless writers on the his- 
tory of Woodbridge, New Jersey, have attempted to iden- 
tify an early clergyman v/ho had some dispute with a 
congregation there as Colonel Nathaniel Wade. The error 
is too patent to require more than mention. 



342. William Wade of Bristol, a lawyer, believed to have 
gone to America, but no trace of him has been 
found there; the only William on record being a 
yeoman of Hankton, Sussex, whose will, dated 
Sept. 20, 1682, was proved at Philadelphia. (See 
Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvatiia, 
Vol. I., pp. 49-50.) The Wades who sailed with 
Penn have all been identified (see Shourd's Fen- 
wick Colony)^ and William of Bristol was not one 
of them. 



Famous English Wades. 163 

343. Thomas Wade of Micheldean, County of Gloucester. 
Married: — Elizabeth Lane, at Micheldean, July 18, 
1671. (She died June 30, 1680). 

Issue : — ? 

352. . 

345. John Wade of Filton, Esquire. 

Married : — Eleanor (daughter of Sir John Newton) 
of Barrs Court, County of Gloucester. 

Issue : — 
None. 
John Wade died May, 17 10, and is buried in Filton Church. 
His widow, Eleanor, died April 17, 1741, aged 80, and is 
buried by the side of her husband in Filton Church. Her 
will was proved at Bristol, April 29, 1741, by her nephew, 
John Wade. 

346. Thomas Wade of Bristol, merchant. 



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Married: — Mary (daughter of Henry Whiting) of 
Chewton Keynsham, in Somersetshire, (said to have 
been a descendant of a brother of the last Abbot 
of Glastonbury). 

Issue : — 

853. John Wade, b. 1696. 

354. Anna Wade of Bristol, living unm. Apr. 28, 1770. 

Thomas Wade died January ir, 1734, and was buried 
at Filton. 

348. John Wade of Gloucester, Esquire. 

Married: — Hannah (daughter of Ridler) of 

Haresfield, County of Gloucester, clothier, August, 
1711; died 1743; will proved at Gloucester, 1744. 



164 The Wade Genealogy. 

Issue : — 

355. John Wade, Lord of the Manor of Blaisdon and of 

Woodchester, d. 1793, unm. ; will proved at Lon- 
don, June 12, 1793. 

356. Thomas Wade of Bristol, living 1745. 

357. Major Wade. d. Aug. 19, 1736, aet. 18. 

358. Nathaniel Wade. bur. at St. Mary le Crypt. Glouces- 

ter, May 31, 1722. 

John Wade died in 1723, and was buried at St. Mary le 
Crypt in Gloucester. His will was proved in the Preroga- 
tive Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury. 

353. John Wade of Filton, gentleman, born 1696. 

Married : — I, Mary (daughter of Nicholson of 

Bristol, died October 11, 1737, aet. 46). 

Married : — II, Anne (died January 7, 1764). 

Issue : — 

353. Mary Wade. bapt. at Filton, Sept. 26. 1722: m. Paul 

Britton, Esq. 

354. John Wade of Henbury. 

355. Grace Wade, bapt. at Filton, Aug. 15, 1726; m. 

Roberts. 

356. Nathaniel Wade, bapt. at Filton, Feb. 5, 1728; all 

traces lost. 

357. Hannah Wade, bapt. at Filton, Jan. 19. 1734; d. 1781. 

358. Ann Wade. bapt. at Filton, Dec. 25, 1738 ; m. J. 

Morgan, Esq. 

John Wade died October 24, 1760. His will, dated x\ugust 
28, 1752, was proved at Bristol, November 29. 1760; buried 
at Filton. 



354. John Wade of Henbury. in Gloucestershire, gentle- 
man. 




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Ma.ior-General James Franklin Wade, U. S. V. (Brigadier (leneral 
U.S.A.) His record WEB written large with his own good sword 
in the Civil War. In uniform as and when, Colonel Commanding 
5th Cavalry U. S. A. (Massachusetts family.) 



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Famous English Wades. 165 

Married: — Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel Child) of 
Henbury, March 27, 1749. She died January 23, 
1796, aet. 76; buried at Filton. 

Issue : — 

359. John Wade of Henbury. d. May 7, 1786, aet. 38; no 

issue. 

360. Thomas Wade of Shirehampton. 

361. Nathaniel Newton Wade of Henbury. 

362. Anne Wade, m. (1) Griffiths; m. (3) Bowen. 

363. Mary Wade, m. Samuel Colston. 

John Wade died September 21, 1786. Will proved in the 
Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Octo- 
ber 7, 1786. Buried at Henbury. 

360. Thomas Wade of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire, gen- 

tleman, born 1 752. 

Married : — ? 

Issue : — 
None. 

Thomas Wade died Novemiber 7, 1821, and was buried at 
Shirehampton. By his will, proved at Bristol, February 19, 
1822, he left his estates at Henbury to his brother, Nathan- 
iel Newton Wade, and his property at Shirehampton to his 
nephew, Edward Wade. 

361. Nathaniel Newton Wade of Henbury, gentleman. 



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Married: — Ebenezer Bartholomew Rogers (only 
daughter of Richard Rogers, Esquire), of West- 
bury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire. She died 28th 
May, 1852. Buried at Henbury. Will proved 
at Bristol. Married at Clifton Church, Glouces- 
tershire. 

Issue : — 

364. Thomas Wade of Shirehampton. 

365. William Newton Wade of Newport, b. Mar. 18, 1795. 

366. John Child Wade of Nempnett, b. May 37, 1793. 



i66 The Wade Genealogy. 

367. Nathaniel Wade of Bristol, b. July 16, 1796. 

368. Kichard Bookers Wade, b. Aug. 6, 1801 ; d. Nov. 9, 

1832, without issiie. 

369. Henry Wade, b. Nov. 19, 1802; d. Apr. 15, 1819, unm. 

370. Edward Wade. 

371. Ebenezer (daughter), m. William Bevau, Esq., of 

Stoke Giflford. 

372. Ann EUinor, m. James Smith. 

373. Jane. m. A. Wilmott, Esq. 

374. Elizabeth, m. W. Williams, Esq. 

375. Hester, m. James Stephenson, Esq. 

376. Sarah, d. a spinster, July 11, 1822. 

Nathaniel Newton Wade died 3rd December, 1842, and 
was buried at Henbury. Will dated 31st July, 1841, and 
was proved at Bristol, 5th January, 1843. 



364. Thomas Wade of Shirehampton, in the County of 

Gloucester, g-entleman, born October 6, 1791. 
Married : — Mary Dyer. 

Issue : — 

377. Thomas Wade. 

378. Edgar Josiah Wade. 

379. Esther Wade. 

380. Mary Wade. 

381. Sarah Jane Wade. 

365. William New ION Wade of Newport, Monmouthshire, 

gentleman, born March 18, 1795. 




Married : — Zipporah (daughter of I. Short, Esquire), 
of Oldland Common, Britton, Gloucestershire; 
married at Clifton Church, Bristol (died January 
II, 1869; buried in Newport Cemetery). 

Issue : — 

382. Edward Wade, b. at Olveston, Gloucestershire, Dec. 

14. 1825. 

383. Henry Wade. b. at Olveston. Aug, 15, 1827. 

384. Bichard Wade, b. at Olveston, Apr. 28, 1830. 

385. William Wade, b. at Olveston, Aug. 24, 1834. 

386. Zipporah Wade, b. at Caerleon-on-Usk, Mar. 12, 1838 ; 

m. Edward Edwards of Cardiflf. 



Famous English Wades. , 167 

William Newton Wade died March 15, 1878. and was 
buried in the Public Cemetery, Newport, Monmouthshire. 
Will dated September 22, 1874; proved in the Landaff 
District Registry, September 2, 1878. 



366. John Child Wade, born May 27, 1793. 
Married : 

Issue : — 

387. William Wade, living: in Australia, 1900. 

388. Daughter, m. J. Light. 

John Child Wade was buried at Nempnett, in the County 
of Somerset. 



367. Nathaniel Wade of Bristol, born July 16, 1796. 

Married : — Elizabeth (daughter of Taylor) of 

Bristol. 

Issue : — 

389. Nathaniel Wade, b. Dec. 7, 1880. 

390. Thomas Taylor Wade, b. Dec. 31, 1835. 

391. Mary Ann Wade, m. Charles Evans. 

392. Jane Wade, unm. 

393. Elizabeth Wade, unm. 

Nathaniel Wade died April 5, 1870. Buried at Shire- 
hampton. Will proved at Bristol, May 27, 1870. 



370. Edward Wade of Cross, Axbridge in Somersetshire, 
born December 28, 1809. 

Married : — I, Mary Lawrence. 

Issue : — 

394. Alexander Hart Wade, d. in Jamaica, W. I., 1851. 

Married: — II, Jane (daughter of Rankin, 

Esq.), of Bristol. 

Issue : — 

895. John Biddle Wade, in Australia. 
Married : — III, Susannah Mines (daughter of Francis 
Wride, Esquire), died April 24, 1859, aged 42 years. 



/ 



i68 The Wadf. Genealogy. 

Issue : — 

396. Richard Edward Wade, b. July 28, 1841; dead. 

397. Charles Wade, b. May 16, 1844 ; d. without issue. 

398. Edward Fry Wade, b.'Sept. 11, 1848 ; unm. ; a solicitor. 

livino: at Axbridge, Somerset, 1900. 

399. Reorinald Wade, b. March 24, 1850 : a physician at 

Highbridge, Somerset, 1900. 

400. Elizabeth Wade. b. Aug. 19. 1844. 

401. Olive Mary Wade, d. au infant. 

403. Emily Georgianne Wade, b. Aug. 21, 1854. 

Married: — IV, Sophia (daughter of Mills, 

Esquire). She died 1867, aged 37 years. 

Issue : — 

403. Newton Wade. b. Dec. 6, 1863 ; a physician. 

404. William Mills Wade, b. Jan. 9, 1867. 

405. Agnes Wade. b. July 2, 1862. 

406. Edith Wade, b. May, 1865. 

Edward Wade was a physician and surgeon at Axbridge, 

Somerset. He died 18 , and was buried at Compton 

Bishop, in the County of Somerset. 



382. Edward Wade, b. at Oiveston, December 14, 1825; 
baptized at St. Nicholas, Bristol. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : 

407. Issue living. 

Edward Wade died August 28, 1898, and was buried in 
the cemetery at Newport, Monmouthshire. His will was 
proved September 13, 1898, in the Principal Registry, 
London. 



383. Henry Wade, born at Oiveston, August 15, 1827; 

baptized at St. James, Bristol. 

Married: (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

408. One daughter living, 1900. 

Henry Wade died June 3, 187 1. 

384. Richard Wade, born at Oiveston, April 28, 1830; 

baptized there. 




MAJOR-GEXERAii James Fraxklix Wadk, U. S. v. (Bricjailier TTeneral 
U. S. A.) (Massachusetts family.) 



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Famous English Wades. 169 

Married : — Sarah (daughter of John Davies) of Cas- 
tleton, Monmouthshire. 

Issue : — 

409. Godfrey Newton Wade of Newport, b. Dec. 25, 1874. 

410. Marj' Zipporah Wade. b. April 8, 1871; m. Percival 

Green of Liverpool. 

Richard Wade lived at Newport, Monmouthshire. He 
died June 17. 1893, and was buried at Castleton. His will 
was proved in the Principal Registry in London, October 
12, 1893. 



385. William Wade, born at Olveston, August 24, 1834; 
baptized there. 




Married : — Maria Jane (daughter of William Tre- 
harne Rees) of Holly House, Bassaleg, Monmouth- 
shire, March i, 1870.. (She was born September 23, 
1841). 

Issue : — 

411. David Treharne Newton Wade, b. Jan. 7, 1871 ; a 

solicitor. 

412. George Eees Wade, b. July 25. 1872 ; mechanical 

engineer. 
418. Marcus Ithel Wade, b. Jan. 26, 1874; a solicitor. 

414. William Blaisdon Wade, b. Oct. 17, 1875 ; mechanical 

engineer. 

415. Noel Nathaniel Wade. b. Dec. 26, 1876 ; a physician. 

416. Harold Harding Wade, b. March 21, 1878. 

417. Charles Rogers Wade, b. Nov. 3, 1884. 

418. Elinor Newton Wade, b. April 19, 1879. 

419. Blanch Rees Wade, b. Aug. 23, 1880. 

420. Ethel Maria Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1882. 

421. Grace Decima Wade, b. June 1, 1888. 

422. Zipporah Jane Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1889. 

423. Philip Richard Wade, d. March 4, 1887; an infant. 

William Wade is a well-known Solicitor of the Supreme 
Court of Judicature and Notary Public at Newport, Mon- 
mouthshire; President of the Monmouthshire Incorporated 
Law Society. 



170 The Wade Genealogy. 

399. Reginald Wade of Highbridge, Somerset; physician. 
Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue :— 

424. Living. 

411. David Treharne Newton Wade of Newport, in the 
County of Monmouth, Solicitor of the Supreme 
Court and Notary Public, born January 7, 1871. 

Married : — Sarah Louise Lloyd (daughter of William 
Rees Lloyd) of Gellywastod Machen, Monmouth- 
shire, September 5, 1899. 

Issue : — 

425. Newton Lloyd Wade, b. Aug. 19, 1900. 



THK WADES OK IRELAND. 

Having now stated all that careful research has disclosed 
as to the Wades settled in the North and West portions of 
England, it becomes appropriate to refer to the branch of 
this family which emigrated to Ireland at an early date. 

Let one point be clearly understood. Wade is as Saxon as 
Saxon can be. The Irish Wades are either the descendants 
of English, who settled in Ireland, or the representatives 
of Irish peasantry who, existing without surnames as late 
as the reign of Henry VIII, adopted the name of one of 
their conquerors. Cold comfort as this may be to the 
Nationalist believers in a sept of McWades, the proposition 
will be self-evident to every student of etymology. 

Be the source what it may, bright indeed is the escutch- 
eon of the Irish Wades. On the roll of great men and 
doers of great deeds, we find Field Marshal General George 
Wade, the pacificator of the Scottish clans and the builder 
of the famous Highland Roads. 



Famous English Wades. 171 

Noteworthy is the tendency to militarism — that bugbear 
of the timorous Colonel Bryan — for these Irish Wades were 
nearly always soldiers of distinction. 

We find on the British Army List, in addition to the 
Field Marshal, that dashing soldier and brilliant diplo- 
matist, vSir Claude Martine Wade. Son of a gallant East 
India Company's officer, his fame rests securely and very 
high as the first European to force the frowning Khyber 
Pass, and as the man who for years kept peace "beyond 
the border" of the British India of that day. 

Nor is the Westmeath branch of the house a whit behind. 
Its bright particular star is Colonel Sir Thomas Francis 
Wade, the famous Chinese linguist and British Ambassa- 
dor to China. 

Melody claims a representation as well as martial ardor, 
and finds it in Joseph Augustine Wade, self-taught and 
his own worst enemy; his " Meet me by Moonlight Alone," 
will be a classic when his penniless, drunken end has been 
charitably forgotten. 

The science of botany has its representative in Walter 
Wade (died 1825), the author of the first systematic ar- 
rangement of the flora of that Niobe of isles, and who first 
diffused a general taste for botany in Ireland. 

Religion had her minister also in the person of William 
Wade, canon of Windsor, a brother of the Field Marshal, 
to whose virtues and modesty a memorial tablet, in the 
Chapel Royal at Windsor, bears witness. 

Lastly, medicine is today represented by Sir Willoughby 
Francis Wade, who stands high as an authority among the 
English-speaking disciples of Aesculapius. 

Socially also, the Wades settled in Ireland were prom- 
inent, so much so as to lead the kindly-intentioned Ulster 
King of Arms, Sir Bernard Burke, to furnish them with a 
pedigree of great antiquity. Ingeniously, but not ingenu- 
ously, did he essay in the earlier editions of his Landed 
Gentry to 

" Take all the remarkable Wades out of historj' 
Mingle them up in Hibernian tune." 



172 The Wade Genealogy. 

As a curiosity in genealogfy (?) his statements are worth 
preserving. He wrote as follows: — " Wade of Westmeath. 
This family claims to be of Saxon origin and to have been 
early located in the County of Northumberland. It became 
afterwards settled at Glastonbury, in the County of Som- 
erset, and was there resident in the fourteenth century. 
From the Glastonbury branch descended Sir {su) Armigal 
Wade of Belsize. in Middlesex, who was clerk of the council 
tempore Edward VI. Sir William Wade, who in 1584, was 
Amlaassador to Spain from Queen Elizabeth, and subse- 
quently Lieutenant of the Tower of London as late as the 
year 1609. Sir William's son, William Wade, established 
himself at Tangier in Africa as a merchant, but returned to 
England previously to his death. His son, William Wade, 
who held the rank of Major in the army of the Common- 
wealth, obtained a grant of land in Westmeath and in the. 
King's County in 1653." 

Burke concludes by placing Field Marshal George Wade 
as the grandson of Major William Wade, and tracing the 
later generations of the family in Westmeath. 

Let us examine this farrago of weird and wondrous 
make. In the first place, no Wades have been traced in 
Northumberland, other than in the references made on 
pages 28 and 32 of this work. Wade of Northumberland 
verges on the era of myth, and deserves a place beside 
Thackeray's immortal ancestor of the Hugginses, " Hogyn 
Mogyn of the Hundred Beeves." The Kilnsea Wades 
were Yorkshire people at the Battle of Flodden Field 
(15 13), and before that, as early as 1379, were settled in 
the Kilnsea district. Glastonbury, which is to Kilnsea as 
Beersheba was to Dan, never boasted of any Wades, and 
the Wades of Filton, Henbury, and Frampton, all near to 
the "Severn Sea," are clearly of no kin to the Wades of 
Kilnsea. Wade is a name man derives from the face of 
nature, and many men, not related, could thus derive the 
same name. The height of the ludicrous is reached in styling 
Armigel Waad a Knight, when records of those created 
exist, and Armigel's will and tombstone unite in terming 
him a simple Esquire. 




Frank Wade Robertson. M. 1)., 
Actiug Cleueral SnperiDtendent. Elmira Eet'ormatoiy. X. Y. 

(Mafisacbnsetts family.) 



Famous English Wades. j73 

Lastl}^ there is not a scintilla of proof that Major Wil- 
liam Wade of the Commonwealth Army was of the Kilnsea 
Wades. On the contrary, the Kilnsea folk were Royalists, 
as some of them found to their cost. There is no trace of 
a William Wade as son of Sir William, and both Morant 
and Wright, the historians of Essex, fail to notice such a 
person. Nor will the dates fit. Sir William Wade died in 
1623, leaving one son, born in 161 1. Burke would have us 
believe that Field Marshal George Wade, (who certainly 
was born in 1673), was the great grandson of W^illiam 
Wade, the Tangier merchant, son of Sir William. Now 
James Wade, the eldest son of Sir William Wade, was not 
born until 161 1, and if each descendant had had a son at 
20 years of age, the time would still be too short for the 
Field Marshal to be of this family. 

It is to be regretted that no information hereon can be 
obtained from the reverend gentleman at present Vicar of 
Manuden, Essex, as to entries in his registers. Repeated 
letters have failed to elicit the courtesy of a reply, so that 
it is charitable to presume that the wife of some predeces- 
sor in the vicarage has, (as occurred in other parishes), used 
the vellum leaves of the old registers to cover fruit and 
pickle jars. 

So far as ascertained, the pedigree of Wade of West- 
meath follows: — 



450. William Wade, Major of Dragoons in Oliver Crom- 

well's Army, received a grant of lands in West- 
meath and King's Counties, Ireland, in 1653. 

Married : (daughter of the Reverend Henry 

Stonestreet, Rector of South Heighton, Sussex). 

Issue : — 

451. Jerome Wade of Killavalley, Westmeath. 

451. Jerome Wade of Killavalley, Westmeath, Esquire. 

Married : (daughter of ). 



174 The Wade Genealogy. 

Issue : — 

452. William Wade, Canon of Windsor. 

453. Jerome Wade of Killavalley. 

454. George Wade. 

455. Wade, m. Eobert Cooke of Kiltynan Castle, 

Limerick. 



452. William Wade, Cation of Windsor, was born at Tan- 
gier, it is said, in 1672, though his monument 
would fix the date as 1670. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

456. . 

The Reverend William Wade was admitted to St. Peter's 
School, Westminster, in 1686, was elected Westminster 
scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, June 28, 1690, and 
Fellow of that college in 1696. He was appointed Canon of 
Windsor in 1720, and died at Bath, February i, 1732. He 
was buried in St. George's Chapel- Royal at Windsor 
beneath the following inscription on a marble monument: 
" Here lies interred the body of Mr. William Wade, who 
was remarkable for his benevolence and true Christian tem- 
per. He received his first education at Westminster School, 
from whence he was elected to Trinity College in Cambridge, 
of which Society he afterwards became Fellow, and in the 
year 1720, was constituted one of the Canons of this Royal 
Chapel. He had learning and abilities which might have 
raised him to the highest stations in the church; but such 
was his modesty and the meekness of his mind, that he 
chose rather to devote himself to the practice of all social 
virtues in private life. He died at Eath the rst of Febru- 
ary, 1732, in the sixty-second year of his age. His most 
affectionate brother. Lieutenant General George Wade, 
erected this monument to his memory." 

453. Jerome Wade of Killavalley, Westmeath, Esquire. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

457. William Wade. 



Famous English Wades. 175 

454. George Wade, born 1673; Field Marshal of the Brit- 
ish Army. 

Never married. 

Issue : — (Illegitimate). 

458. Captain Georo-e Wade. 

459. Captain John Wade. 

460. Jane Earle (Wade), m. Balph Allen. 

461. Emilia Wade, m. (1) John Mason; m. (2) Jebb. 

Georg-e Wade was appointed Ensign in Captain Richard 
Trevannion's Company in the Earl of Bath's Regiment 
(loth foot) on December 26, 1690. There is a tradition in the 
Wade family that the future Field Marshal served at the 
battle of Aughrim. This is most improbable, as Lord 
Bath's Regiment was in the Channel Islands in July, 169 1, 
whence it was sent to Flanders the same year. In August, 
1692, Wade served with his regiment at Steinkirk, and was 
promoted Lieutenant on Februaiy 10, 1692-3. On April 19, 

1694, he was promoted Captain-Lieutenant, and on June 13, 

1695, was appointed Captain of the grenadier company. 

On the breaking out of the Vv^ar with France in 1702, Sir 
Bevil Granville's (late Lord Bath's) Regiment was in Flan- 
ders, and Wade served with his corps at the sieges of 
Kaiserswerth, Venlo, and Roermond, also in the action with 
the French near Nimeguen. 

In the autumn of 1702, Captain Wade served at the siege 
of Liege. It is recorded that his grenadiers greatly dis- 
tinguished themselves in storming and carrying the citadel, 
one of the strongest fortifications in Flanders. On March 
20, 1703, Wade was promoted Major, and in August of the 
same year served at the siege and capture of Huy. On 
October 25, 1703, he succeeded to the Lieutenant Colonelcy 
of his regiment, and in 1704, volunteered for service in Por- 
tugal, whither a British contingent was about to be 
despatched under the Earl of Galway. Through Galway's 
influence. Wade received the staff appointment of Adjutant 
General in Portugal, with the brevet rank of Colonel, on 
August 27, 1704. In the spring of 1705. Galway laid siege 
to the frontier town Valencia d'Alcantara, which was car- 



176 The Wade Genealogy. 

Tied by storm on May 8. At this siege Colonel Robert 
Duncanson, Colonel of the regiment (now known as the 
33d foot), was killed, and the Colonelcy was bestowed on 
Wade. On April 10, 1706, Wade was wounded at the siege 
of Alcantara, but continued to serve on Galway's staff, and 
accompanied the allied forces to Madrid, which was entered 
in triumph on June 27. The tripartite comedy of errors 
which was now played by the three leading Carlist actors, 
Galway, Peterborough, and Charles, is too well known to 
recapitulate. After a month of inaction at Madrid, Galway 
left the Spanish capital with the allied forces and retreated 
to Valencia. "The retreat was made in so good order," 
wrote Lord Galway, " that the enemy, superior as they 
were in number, never durst venture to attack us after the 
warm reception twenty-two of their squadrons met with 
from two battalions under the command of Colonel Wade 
in the town of Villa Nova." Wade earned fresh laurels at 
the fatal battle of Almanza on April 25, 1707, where he 
commanded, as a Brigadier General in the Spanish Army, 
the third brigade of British infantry, which bore the brunt 
of the fighting and lost heavily. He miraculously escaped 
capture, and joined Galway at Alcira, whence he was sent 
to England with despatches. On January i, 1707-8, Wade 
was promoted Brigadier General in the British Army, and 
returned to Spain in the spring. He was chosen second in 
command to General James Stanhope (afterwards first Earl 
Stanhope) in the expedition to Minorca, which sailed from 
Barcelona in September, 1708. At the siege of Port Philip 
which defended Port Mahon, Wade led the stormers, cap- 
tured a redoubt and afterwards negotiated a capitulation. 
Port Philip being reduced, the capital and whole island at 
once submitted, and became a British dependency. Wade 
received a complimentary letter from Charles III, and the 
commission of Major General in the Carlist Army. In 
November he was sent home with news of the reduction 
of Minorca. 

After leaving England, Wade remained in Portugal until 
1710, when he joined Stanhope in Spain and was given the 




Lieutenant John Parsons Wade, 5th Cavalry, U. S. A. Aide-de-Camp 
to Major-General James F. Wade (his father). This jraUant young 
officer raised the stars and strii)es ou Morro Castle, Havana, when 
Spain tiled out and Cuba first was free. (Massachusetts family.) 



Famous English Wades. 177 

command of a brigade of infantry. On August 20 was 
fought the Battle of Saragossa. All the colors, twenty- 
two pieces of cannon, and nearly four thousand prisoners 
were captured, besides King Philip's plate and equipage. 
Wade was recommended for promotion by Stanhope (see 
Colonel Harrison's letter to Lord Dartmouth, on Septem- 
ber 23, 1710), and sent to England to ask for additional 
troops and supplies. He did not return to Spain, but was 
promoted Major General on October 3, 17 14, and a month 
later was appointed Major General of the forces in Ireland. 
It was doubtful whether he took up his command, as he was 
returned as member of parliament for Hindon, Wiltshire, 
January 25, 17 14-15. When the rebellion broke out, in 
1 7 15, Wade was sent to Bath, which was strongly Jacobite, 
in command of two regiments of dragoons. His zeal in 
ferreting out conspiracies resulted in a find of eleven 
chests of firearms, swords, cartridges, three pieces of can- 
non, which had been buried under ground. Two years 
later Wade was instrumental in discovering a plot against 
the government, hatched by Count Gyllenberg, the Swed- 
ish ambassador, who was arrested. On March 19, 17 17, 
George I. bestowed the Colonelcy of the regiment now 
known as the 3rd Dragoon Guards, on Wade; and when it 
was decided to send an expedition against Vigo, in 17 19, 
Wade was appointed second in command. This expedition 
was entirely successful. Vigo surrendered, and Pont-a- 
Vedra was taken by Wade, who captured and destroyed 
the arsenal after removing the most valuable guns, stores, 
and ammunition, which were sent on board the fleet. 

In 1722, Wade was elected member of parliament for 
Bath, which borough he continued to represent until his 
death. Two years later, he was sent to Scotland to recon- 
noitre the Highlands and observe their strength and re- 
sources. Wade's report to the government on the measures 
he considered necessary to adopt for the civilization of 
the country resulted in his being appointed Commander- 
in-Chief in Scotland. Now commenced under Wade's 
superintendence, the construction of those important mili- 
[12] 



178 The Wade Genealogy. 

tary roads which brought the inmost fastnesses in the 
North and West of Scotland within touch of the rest of 
Great Britain. Wade commenced his roads in 1726, em- 
ploying five hundred soldiers in the work, who received 
sixpence a day extra pay, and in three years his work was 
well advanced. Wade's engineering triumphs in the High- 
lands are recorded in the historic bull, 

" Had you seen these roads before they were made. 
You would lift up your hands and bless General Wade." 

which was inscribed on an obelisk which formerly stood 
on the road between Inverness and Inverary. Forty stone 
bridges were also built by Wade's " highwaymen," as he 
facetiously termed his working soldiers. Of these bridges, 
the most worthy of mention is the one he built over the 
Tay, in 1733. This bore on its parapet a Latin inscription 
commemoratiiig General George Wade, and complimentary 
to his skill as an engineer and road maker. The lines, 
which were from the pen of Doctor Robert Friend of 
Westminster, ran as follows: 

Mirare. 
Viam hanc militarem 
Ultra Romanes terminos 
M. Passuum CCL. hao iliac extensam 
Tesquis et Paludibus insultantem 
Per Rupes Montesqne patefactam 

Et indiguanti Tavo 

Ut ceruis instratam : 
Opus hoc ardunm sua solertia 
Et deceunali militum opera 
Anno aer. Xae. 17::i3 perfecit, G. Wade 
Copiarum in Scotia Praefectus 
Ecce quantum valeant 
Regia Georgii 2 di Auspicia. 

Wade himself was styled by the wits, the greatest high- 
wayman in existence. He seems to have communicated 
his own stiff, formal character to his roads, one being de- 
scribed as 16 miles long with only four turnings. But the 
Scottish antiquary execrates his memory, as he went smack 
through a Roman camp at Cudock with one of his 
roads. ("Memoir on Scottish Roads" prefixed to 



Famous English Wades. 179 

Burt's Letters, Gent. Mag., 1731, p. 488; 1754, p. 516; 
Notes and Queries, 3rd Ser., Vol. II., p. 192). The dis- 
arming of the Highland clans was proceeded with so 
slowly, and judiciously, that Wade became personly popu- 
lar, even while faithfully obeying the most distasteful 
orders (Stanhope, History of England, Vol. II., p. 86). Three 
Regiments of Dragoons were raised in June, 1727, to in- 
crease the military force in Scotland, and the Colonelcy of 
one of these regiments was given to Wade, who had been 
promoted Lieutenant General on March 7, 1727. In 1732, 
the sinecure government of Berwick and Holy Island was 
bestowed on him by George II., who, in 1733, appointed 
him Governor of the newly constructed Fort William, Fort 
Augustus, and Fort George. 

Wade was not in Scotland at the time of the Porteous 
riots, but it was owing to his application to Queen Caroline 
that Porteous was reprieved. On July 2, 1739, Wade was 
promoted General of Horse, and in 1742, was appointed 
a Privy Councillor and Lieutenant General of the Ord- 
nance. 

These honors were followed on December 14, 1743, by 
the bestowal of a Field Marshal's baton and by his appoint- 
ment as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Flan- 
ders, which were to co-operate with the Austrian and Dutch 
contingents. The Due d'Aremberg commanded the Aus- 
trians, and the Count of Nassau the Dutch. Opposed to 
the allied forces were eighty-five thousand French troops, 
under Maurice of Saxe. The French, superior in numbers, 
were under an able commander, while Wade, who was 
turned seventy years of age and in failing health, had 
never before commanded an army in the field. He found 
d'Aremberg and Nassau opposed to all his plans, and at 
the opening of the campaign in 1744, the allied generals 
had no definite plan of action. Within six weeks the 
French reduced Courtrai, Menin, and Ypres, Fort Knoque, 
and Furnes. George II, alarmed at their conquests, 
made Lord Carteret write to Wade and inform him 
that "it was his Majesty's pleasure the army should march 



i8o The Wade Genealogy. 

upon the enemy and attack him with a spirit suitable to 
the glory of the British nation." {Carteret MSS.). The 
allies crossed the Scheldt on July 20, in order to bring the 
French to an engagement. The time was propitious, as 
Prince Charles of Loraine, at the head of an Austrian force, 
had won great success against the French in Alsace, which 
compelled Louis XV. to withdraw part of his army from 
Flanders. The French Army, however, took up a post 
behind the Lys, and the allies, impeded by a divided com- 
mand, weakened by discordant opinions, and hampered by 
plans of a campaign prepared in England by the Earl of 
Stair, effected nothing of importance. Wade and his col- 
leagues were made the butts for pasquinades in the French 
papers (Gent. Mag,, 1744), and appeared as comic figures 
in French plays. Early in October, Wade's health broke 
down, and he applied for leave to return to England, 
which was granted. In the following March he resigned 
his command. George II. expressed satisfaction at his 
services, and further evinced his good-will by appointing 
him Commander-in-Chief in England. On the outbreak of 
th^ rebellion in Scotland, Wade took the field with all the 
forces he could collect, and marched to Doncaster, Several 
regiments were recalled from Flanders, and six thousand 
Dutch troops were requisitioned from the states to serve in 
Great Britain. The militia of several counties were also 
called out. But there was no display of enthusiasm for the 
king's service in the north of England. Wade seems to 
have played the part of General Monk, and to have rested 
on his arms, supine, until he saw how the Pretender suc- 
ceeded. His officers were so anxious to attack the High- 
landers that they are said to have dropped in his path the 
following apt quotation from Shakespeare's Ji'ing John .• — 

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A cockered, silken wanton, brave our fields, 
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, 
Mocking: the air with colours idly spread, 
And find no check ? Let us, my liege, to arms! 

With his companions in arms — Cope and Hawley, Wade 
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Monument erected in WeBtminster Abbey to the memory of Field Marsiial 

General George Wade. 



Famous ExNGLish Wades. i8r 



Cope cotild not cope, 

Nor Wade wade through the snow. 
Nor Hawlej' haul 

His cannon to the foe. 



Wadesays, "England isfor the first-comer," wrote Henry- 
Fox to Sir C. Williams, " and I believe it." By the end of 
September, Wade's force, numbering ten thousand, concen- 
trated on Newcastle. The Highland Army, flushed by the 
victory of Prestonpans, marched to Kelso and made feint of 
proceeding to Wooler, which put Wade on the wrong scent. 
Turning suddenly westward they marched through Liddes- 
dale into Cumberland. Carlisle was surprised and captured. 
Utterly perplexed by contradictory reports as to the route 
taken by the rebels. Wade marched to Hexham in the hope 
of intercepting them. Arriving there on November i6, 
in a snowstorm of unequaled severity, news was received 
of the capture of Carlisle. The impassible state of the 
i-oads prevented Wade from marching further westward. 
Meanwhile, Charles Edward continued his victorious 
march southward, followed by Wade. A fresh army of 
eight thousand men, commanded by the Duke of Cumber- 
land, was marching across Staffordshire. The Highland- 
ers, under the able leadership of Lord George Murray, out- 
marshaled and out-manoeuvered Cumberland, and reached 
Derby on December 4. Two days later they turned their 
faces homewards. Once more Lord George Murray guided 
his little army safely between the hostile armies of Wade 
and Cumberland, and reached the borders of Westmorland 
in safety. Cumberland was appointed Commander-in- 
Chief of the whole British Army, and Wade retired into 
private life. He died unmarried, on March 14, 174S, and 
was buried in Westminster Abbey. By his will, dated June 
I, 1747, Wade left ^^500 for the erection of a monument to 
himself either in Bath Abbey, or Westminster Abbey. The 
monument was erected at Westminster .over the Canons' 
door to the cloisters. It is surmounted by his portrait in 
profile, flanked by two figures, the Goddess of Fame pre- 
venting Time from destroying the Field Marshal's sword, 
armor and decorations, which are attached to a column. 



i82 The Wade Genealogy. 

The monument, which is some 12 feet high, bears Wade's 
coat of arms and crest. Arms .■ A saltire, between 4 escal- 
lops, or. Crest : A rhinosceros passant. The inscription 
reads: — 

"Sacred to the memory of George Wade, Field Marshal 
of his Majesty's Forces, Lieutenant General of the Ord- 
nance, Colonel of his Majesty's third Regiment Dragoon 
Guards, Governor of Fort William, Fort Augustus and Fort 
George, and one of his Majesty's Most Honorable Privy 
Council. He died 14th March, 1748. Aged 75 years." 

It is said that the sculptor Roubiliac used to come and 
stand before " his best work," the monument to Wade, and 
weep to think it put too high to be appreciated. (Stanley, 
Westminster Abbey, p. 267). Two portraits of Wade, one 
anonymous and the other by Haecken (after John Vander- 
bank), are in the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. 
A third portrait, painted by Adrian Van Diest, was engraved 
by Faber. As a soldier, Wade's talents were more solid 
than brilliant, and did not fit him for successful command. 
He was a useful lieutenant, and an excellent leader in 
action, but he entirely lacked initiative, and he was dis- 
couraged and perplexed by responsibility. Anecdotes of 
the Field Marshal are numerous and are to be found in 
■ Defoe's 7'ouf Through Great Britain, Vol. IV. Hone's Year 
Book, p, 154, and Cunningham's Handbook of London (Cork 
Street). See also the articles by W. Tyte in 27ie Bath and 
Comity Graphic, March, 1899. Wade is notable as one of the 
four Irishmen who have commanded the British Army. 
A contemporary account describes him as a notorious gam- 
bler, but a worthy man, where women were not concerned. 



457. William Wade. 

Married: — (daughter of William Osbrey, 

Esquire) of Dublin. 

Issue : — 

462. Thomas Wade. 

463. William Wade. 



Famous English Wadks. 183 

462. Thomas Wade of Westmeath, Esquire. 

Married: — I, (daughter of Colonel Lowe) of 

Newtownlowe. 

Married: — 11, Anne (daughter of Samuel Handy, 
Esq.) of Coolyclough, Westmeath. 

Married : — III, Miss Walsh of Walsh Park, Tipperary. 

Issue: — 

464. Jerome Wade, d. unm. 

465. Samuel Wade. 

466. Thomas Wade. 

467. John Wade, an officer in the 36th Regt. of Fort 

William, Galway. 

463. William Wade. 

Married: — Eliza (only child of Robert Aird) of 
Airdrie, in Scotland, and Coolure in Westmeath. 

Issue : — 

46S. John Thomas Wade of County Monaghau. 
William Wade died in 1815. 

465. Samuel Wade. 

Married : — Miss Da vies of County Galway. 

Issue : — 

469. Samuel Gustavus Rochfort Wade. 

466. Thomas Wade. 

Married : — . 

Issue : — 

470. George Wade. 

469. Samuel Gustavus Rochfort Wade. 

Married : — Eliza (daughter of Burton Persse, Esquire) 
of Moyode Castle, County Galway. 

Issue : — 

471. Robert Rochfort Wade, b. 1852. 

Samuel Wade died 1862. 



r84 The Wade Genealogy. 

470. George Wade. 

Married :—M.a.vy (daughter of Captain Thomas Nu- 
gent), 2nd Regt. of Foot. 

Issue : — 

472. Richard Wade. 

473. George Wade of Ashbrook, County Dublin. 

474. John Wade, dead. 

471. Robert Rochfort Wade. 

Married: — Olivia (daughter of Thomas Ironton, 
Esquire), in 1886. 

Issue : — 

475. John Rochfort Wade, b. 1887. 

476. Daughter. 

477. Daughter. 

478. Daughter. 

Robert Rochfort Wade resides at Carrowmore, Aughrira, 
County Galway, and is a Justice of the Peace and landed 
proprietor. 

472. Richard Wade. 

Married : (daughter of Howes). 

Issue : — 

479. George Wade (in holy orders) . 

480. John Nugent Wade. 

473. George Wade of Ashbrook, Dublin, Clerk of the 

Peace and Deputy Custos Rotulorum of Dublin 
County. 
Married : — Caroline (daughter of Charles Domville, 
Esquire) of Santry House, County Dublin. 

Issue : — ? 

481. . 

****** 

Next follows the Royal Descent of Claude Fitzroy Wade, 
Esquire, Barrister at law, of England, (son of Sir Claude 
Martine Wade, Knight), which, registered and enrolled in 
the College of Arms of Ireland, is as follows: 



Famous English Wades. 185 

Edward the First, King of England, married Eleanor, 
daughter of Ferdinand, King of Castile and Leon. He 
died 1307, leaving a daiighter : — 

Elizabeth Plantagenet, Princess of England, born at 
Kuthin Castle, Flintshire, Wales, in 1284. Married (1) 
John, Earl of Holland, who died without issue two years 
after his marriage ; married (2) Humphrey de Bohun, 
Earl of Hereford, Lord High Constable of England. 
By her second husband she left a daughter : — 

Lady Elinor Bohun, married James le Botiller, second 
Earl of Carrick, who was created Earl of Ormonde, Nov. 
3, 1828. Their son: - 

James le Botiller, second Earl of Ormonde, married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John D'Arcy of Platin, 
County Meath, and died A. D. 1418. Their son :— 

James le Botiller, third Earl of Ormonde, Lord Justice 
of Ireland, 1877, married Joan, daughter of William 
Beauchamp, Baron of Abergavenny (son of Thomas, 
Earl of Warwick), and died A. D. 1428. Their fourth 
son : — 

The Honorable Edmund Butler of Powlston, in County 

Kilkenny married , and among other issue, left a 

second son : — 

Walter Butler, Esquire, of Powlston, who married and 
left a son : — 

Richard Butler, Esquire, of Powlston, who married and 
left a son : — 

Edmund Butler, Esquire, of Powlston, who married and 
left a son : — 

Walter Butler, Esquire, of Powlston, who married and 
left a son : — 

Sir Richard Butler, of Powlston, Knight, who married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Shortell, of Upper 
Clard, in County Kilkenny, Esquire, and died April 26, 
1086, leaving, among other issue, a fourth son: — 

Peter Butler, Esquire, who married Anne, daughter of 

Lincoln, of County Waterford, Esquire, and died 

leaving a son : — 

John Butler, Esquire, who married Mary, daughter of 

— Granesborough of Waterford, Esquire, and died 

leaving, among other issue, a daughter : — 

Jane Butler, who married (508) John Wade of the City of 
Dublin, Esquire, Doctor of Medicine. He claimed at 
Chichester House, in 1700, the lands of Herbertstown. 
in County Meath His will is dated October 4, 1786; 
proved January 10, 1789. His wife's will is dated Feb- 
ruary 6, 1744; proved September 11, 1745. This John 
Wade was descended as follows : 



500. Hfnry Wade, who married Lucy (the daughter of 



O'Brien, Esquire), purchased the lands of Her- 
bertstown in County Meath, in 1663. His son: — 



i86 The Wade Genealogy. 

501. Charles Wade, of Herbertstown, Esquire, adhered to 

the cause of King James II., and to the Catholic 
religion, and in consequence lost his estate of 
Herbertstown. He married Anne, daughter of 
Alexander Plunkett, of County Meath, Esquire, 
and left a son : — 

502. Richard Wade, Esquire, of Ball3^galore, in County 

W^exford, where he purchased lands. 

Married: — Mary (daughter of John Keough) of 
County W^icklow, Esquire. 

Issue : — 

503. John Wade, M. D. (as above). 

504. Charles Wade of Dublin, merchant. Will dated July 

18, 1745; proved Aus^. 7, W^f^. 

505. Eedmond Wade, Esquire. Will dated May 23, 1752 ; 

proved May 18, 1775. 

506. Mary Wade, m. Maude, Esquire. 

503. John Wade of Dublin, xM. D. (as above). 

Married : — Jane Butler (as above). 
Issue : — 

507. Walter Wade of Dublin, Esquire, 'M. D. 

508. John Wade of Dublin, Esquire. 

509. Francis Wade. 

510. Joseph Wade. 

511. Mary Wade, m. Richard Doyle, Esquire. 

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507. Walter Wade of Dublin, Esquire. M. D. 

Married: — Mary (daughter of Kennedy, Es- 
quire). 
Issue : — 

512. John Wade, General in the Russian Army ; no issue. 

513. Joseph Wade, Lieut. -Colonel, H. E. I. C. S. 

514. John Peter Wade, M. D., H. E. I. C. S. 

515. Charles Wade, M. D., Physician to the Court of the 

King of Portugal. 

516. Wade, dau. , d. at Lisbon, unm. 

508. John Wade of Dublin. 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

517. John Wade of Dublin. Will dated May 28, 1783 ; 

proved Jan. 29, 1799. 




Arms, Crest, and Motto of Colonel Sir Claude Martine Wade, K.C.B. 



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Famous English Wades. 187 

513. Joseph Wade, Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel in the 

Honorable East India Company's service. 
Married : — Maria (eldest daughter of Robert Ross. 
Esquire, Major of Marines), May 9, 1793; died at 
Bath, Somerset, England, October, 1862. 

Issue : — 

518. Claude Martine Wade. 

519. Joseph Wade; d. young. 

520. Maria Wade, married Singleton. 

Joseph W^ade was a famous and gallant soldier of "John 
Company " in the days when great deeds were done in 
India, and with handfuls of men. He died in India, in 1806, 
and even the location of his grave has been forgotten. As 
Rudyard Kipling writes in T/ie Tomb of his Ancestors : "All 
India is full of neglected graves that date from the begin- 
ning of the eighteenth century — tombs of forgotten colonels 
of corps long since disbanded, mates of East Indiamen who 
went on shooting expeditions and never came back; fac- 
tors, agents, writers, and ensigns of the Honourable East 
India Company by hundreds and thousands and tens of 
thousands. English folk forget quickly, but natives have 
long memories, and if a man has done good in his life, it 
is remembered after his death." 

514. JoHK Peter Wade. 

Married : . 

Issue : — ? 

521. . 

John Peter Wade, M. D., was a noted Physician in the 
service of the East India Ct^mpany. Among other works 
he was the author of (i) Select Evidence on Fever and Dysentery 
in Bengal (1791), 8 vo, (2) Nature of Emetics^ etc., in Bengal 
(1792), 8 vo, and (3) Paper on the Disorders of Seamen and 
Soldiers in Bengal (1793), 8 vo. 

518. Claude Martine Wade, born in India, April 3, 1794. 

Married: — At Bath, Somerset, England,. Jane Selina 
(daughter of Captain Thomas Nicholl of the Bengal 



i88 The Wade Genealogy. 

Royal Horse Artillery, who perished in Elphin- 
stone's retreat from Cabul.) (She was born July 
26, 1829). 

Issue : — 

522. Claude Fitzroy Wade. 

523. Cecilia Montague Wade. 

524. Seiina Harriett Wade, dead. 

525. Ellen Maud Wade. 

526. Charlotte Louisa Wade, dead. 

527. Claudine Wade, dead. 

Claude Martine Wade derived his first two names from 
General Claude Martine, the French soldier of fortune, 
who was a friend of his father. Wade was appointed a 
cadet in the Bengal service in 1809, and immediately pro- 
ceeded to India. On arrival he joined the institution at 
Barasset, near Calcutta, where the cadets were instructed 
in the native languages and in the practical part of their 
military duties. After the shortest possible period — six 
months — Wade passed out of Barasset, receiving the sword 
of honor for proficiency. 

After serving with the first battalion, 15th regiment of 
native infantry, as a cadet, he obtained his commission as 
Ensign in the 45th regiment native infantry, July 29, 1812. 
With this regiment Wade served in 1813, in a field force on 
the Gwalior frontier, and was afterward stationed at the 
cantonment of Kunch. Through the unhealthiness of the 
station he presently found himself in command of his own 
corps and of a detachment of artillery. He acquitted him- 
self of his charge in a manner which earned the approval 
of the Governor General and Commander-in-Chief. 

Wade was promoted Lieutenant on October 20, 1815, 
and was actively engaged during that year in operations 
caiised b}' aggressive movements of the combined forces 
of Sindhia and Holkar against the state of Bhopal, which 
was friendly to the British government. From 1816 to 
1819, he served in the Pindari campaigns, being also em- 
ployed with the fifth division, under General Sir J. W. 
Adams, at the siege and capture of the fortified town of 



Famous English Wades. 189 

Chanda. On the termination of hostilities, in 1819, he 
was stationed at Lucknow. 

In 1820-21, Wade officiated as Brigade Major to the 
troops in Oude, and in 1822 he was deputed on political 
duty to Calcutta, as bearer of a letter from the King of 
Oude to the Governor General. On the completion of this 
duty, he was appointed an extra assistant in the office of the 
Surveyor-General of India, and completed the examina- 
tion, arrangement, and analysis of the numerous maps and 
surveys which had for many years accumulated there. 
Some of his maps are in the British Museum. So satisfied 
was the Governor General, Lord Hastings, with his per- 
formance of this duty, that he desired to appoint him to 
the political department, and recommended him to the 
notice of his temporary successor, John Adam. 

By the latter, Wade was, on February 28, 1823, appointed 
to the office of Political Assistant at Ludhiana, where his 
principal duty was, at first, the charge of Shah Shuja-ul- 
Mulk, the exiled ruler of Afghanistan. Shortly after his 
appointment to Ludhiana, however, negotiations of a very 
important nature devolved on him, as the alarm and ex- 
citement caused in India by the ill success of the early 
operations in Burmah endangered the northern frontier. 
Ranjit Singh, at this period in full vigor and at the height 
of his power, suspended his operations against the Afghans, 
and, assembling his whole force about Lahore, was ready 
to avail himself of any British reverse by joining the in- 
surgent Raja of Bhurtpore and other chiefs who were dis- 
aifected to the British government. Wade, who was 
promoted to the rank of Captain on May 13, 1825, was in 
constant communication with the vSikh ruler throughout 
this critical period, and gradually succeeded in convincing 
Ranjit Singh of both the power and the sincerity of the 
British government. In 1826, the termination of the Bur- 
mese war and the capture of Bhurtpore conclusively 
established in the Maharaja's mind the conviction of 
British ascendancy; and in the following year Wade con- 
ducted a complimentary mission from Ranjit Singh to the 



igo The Wade Genealogy. 

Governor General, Lord Amherst, v/ho, in return, sent 
presents by Wade's hand to the Court of Amritsar. Lord 
Amherst, shortly afterwards (autumn of 1827), entrusted 
him with the entire charge of British dealings with the 
Maharaja. Wade performed this duty for seventeen years, 
during which time he was chiefly instrumental in main- 
taining harmony between the British and the Sikh govern- 
ments; moreover, he gained the confidence of Ran jit Singh 
to such an extent as to be permitted freely to visit the 
Punjab at a time when it was rigidly closed to British 
ofificials. In 1830, on the occasion of the mission of Lieu- 
tenant (afterwards Sir Alexander) Burnes, to Lahore, 
Wade was instructed to take over the presents which 
Burnes was conveying to the Maharaja, on the arrival of 
Burnes at-the frontier; but, seeing the importance of others 
besides himself obtaining access to the Punjab, Wade gen- 
erously suggested that Burnes should complete the mis- 
sion. Wade was instrumental in arranging the historical 
interview at Rupar in October, 1832, between Ranjit Singh 
and Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, an event of the 
very highest importance, which afforded convincing proof 
of Wade's influence over the Maharaja. The complete suc- 
cess of Wade's diplomatic dealings with the Maharaja was 
repeatedly acknowledged officially in letters from the vari- 
ous Governors General under whom he served to the court 
of directors, and in the replies of the latter; he received 
no other rewards for these services. 

At length the determination of the British government 
to depose Amir Dost Muhammad Khan from the throne of 
Afghanistan, and to replace him by the exiled Shah, 
Shuja-ul-Mulk, gave Wade the opportunity of his life. 
The main advance of the invading army on Kabul was to 
be made through the Bolan Pass, and thence through 
Southern Afghanistan, but it was decided to make a con- 
verging attack through the Punjab and the Khaibar Pass. 
This subsidiary movement was entrusted to Wade, who 
was promoted Major on June 28, 1838, and was given the 
local rank of Lieutenant Colonel, '"while serving beyond 



Famous English Wades. 191 

the Indus," on September 29 of the same year. Arriving 
at Peshawar, his base of operations, in March, 1839, he set 
to work with the utmost energy at his double task of col- 
lecting and organizing an army, and of negotiating with 
various sections of the Afridi inhabitants of the Khaibar 
region, whom it was desired to propitiate. Wade was 
assisted by a small but very capable staff of eleven officers, 
of whom the most distinguished were Lieutenant Fred- 
erick Mackeson, Dr. Percival Barton Lord, and Lieutenant 
Joseph Davy Cunningham. He first attempted to win over 
the Afridis, but, though partially successful, he eventually 
found it impossible to satisfy the greed of all parties, and 
was obliged to essay a passage of the Khaibar Pass by force 
of arms. His troops were most unpromising as regards 
discipline, though individually of good fighting material. 
They consisted of five thousand Punjabi Muhamadans from 
Ranjit Singh's regular army, of about four thousand un- 
trustworthy Afghan levies, and of 380 of the company's 
regular troops. 

The object of Wade's operations being to aid the advance 
of the army of the Indus, by compelling Dost Muhammed 
Khan to divide his forces, it was necessary to penetrate 
the Khaibar Pass as early as possible. In consequence he 
attacked Fort Ali Musjid on July 22, 1839, but little over 
four months from the day on which the formation of his 
force was begun. The fall of Ghazni compelled Dost Muham- 
med Khan to recall his son, Muhamimed Akbar Khan from 
Jellalabad, and thus deprived the Afridis of Afghan assist- 
ance. Notwithstanding the numerical superiority of the 
enemy. Wade captured Ali Musjid after four days' fighting; 
and, distributing his Afghan levies in positions command- 
ing the road to Kabul, he continued his march to the 
Afghan capital, which he shortly afterward entered, unop- 
posed, at the head of the Sikh contingent. For his bril- 
liant services on this occasion, Wade was promoted to the 
rank of Lieutenant Colonel, receiving also the honor of 
knighthood, the companionship of the Bath, and the first- 
class order of the Durani Empire. 



JUL iJo lUlW 



192 The Wade Genealogy. 

It was stated by Lord Auckland in an official despatch 
that "it was not upon -record that the celebrated Khaibar 
Pass had ever previously been forced." 

After the fall of Kabul and the flight of Dost Muham- 
mad Khan, Wade returned to resume his political duties 
in India, and on March 31, 1840, he was appointed resi- 
dent at Indore. He held this important office until his 
retirement from the service on May i, 1844. During his 
service in Malwa, Wade, among other achievements, af- 
fected the settlement of the Bhil tribes, who, at that 
period, gave much trouble, and it may be remarked that 
throughout his long politi cal employment he was uniformly 
successful in dealing by peaceful methods with the most 
turbulent races. 

It is worthy of record that, at the time of his leaving 
India, Wade had served continuously in that country from 
1809; a longer period than any of his contemporaries, with 
the sole exception of Lord Metcalfe. Wade, who had been 
promoted to the rank of Colonel on November 28, 
1854 ; died at Bath, England, on October 21, 1861. In 
addition to receiving the Order of the Bath from his 
sovereign, Sir Claude Martine Wade was the recipient of an 
enameled and jeweled sword of honor from Ranjit Singh, 
a similar sword from Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk, a third sword 
from the Maharajah Holkar of Indore; two Orders of the 
Durani Empire, and the Order of the most Auspicious 
Star of the Punjab. His sovereign accorded him permis- 
sion to accept and wear these gifts and orders, all of which 
were placed on exhibition at the Victorian Era Exhibition 
in London, in 1897. 

Sir William Betham, Knight, Ulster King of Arms and 
Principal Herald of all Ireland, certified on September 6, 
1845, to the correctness of Sir Claude MartineJWade's pedi- 
gree, and confirmed to him the coat of arms and crest then 
depicted on the pedigree deposited in the Irish Herald's 
College, viz. : 

( To he continued. ) 



Famous English Wades. 193 

Arms : Azure, a saltire argent between 3 escallops or, in chief, tlie 
Order of Ranjit Singh. 

Crest : An arm embowed in armor, proper, holding a sword support- 
ing the Order of the Durani Empire. 

Motto : Pro fide et patrid (For faith and fatherland). 

His widow married in 18G4, Edward Deane McDermot, 
Esquire, M.A., M.D., and resided in Bath until her death, 
June 8, 1900, ag-ed 71 years. 



522. Claude FrrzROY Wade, born at Ryde, Isle of Weight, 
January 2, 1849. 
Married: — August, 1880, at Clevedon, Somerset, 
Lucy Mary (daughter of James Lean, Esquire, 
late Judge of the High Court, Agra, India). 

Issue : — 

528. Hilda Mary Wade, b. June 13, 1881. 

529. Claude Wade. b. February 20, 1883, Lieutenant East 

Yorkshire Militia, 1902. 

530. Lucy Euth Wade, b. July 9, 1886. 

Claude Fitzroy Wade is a Barrister at law of England 
and Clerk of Assize of the North Eastern Circuit. He 
resides at The Knoll, Crystal Palace Parade, Upper Nor- 
wood, London. 

wade of cloneybraney, meath. 

Another branch of the family dates from the early days 
in the settlem.ent of Ireland, and has produced famous Eng- 
lish and American soldiers. It is noteworthy that one of 
its cadets fought as a British officer at Bunker Hill, later 
married a famous New York beauty, Ann Dean (see 
portrait, a/ife p. 110), and g^ave to the New World a g^allant 
soldier of the Florida and Mexican Wars, Colonel Richard 
Dean Arden Wade, who in turn was the father of Captain 
Robert Buchanan W^ade, of Reconstruction days. The ped- 
igree of Wade of Cloneybraney is as follows : — 

550. Henry Wade .(possibly identical with No. 400, p. 185, 
a;ife, and as such the common ancestor of the two 
branches). 

Married : — Anne O'Brien. 
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194 The Wade Genealogy 

Issue: — 

551. Catherine Wade (c), m. Bridges Daniel, Esq. 

Henry Wade obtained a grant from the Crown of Cloney- 
braney, County Meath, and 14P0 acres of land, Novembers, 
1684. He was High Sheriff of Meath in 1GG9. Will dated 
May 19, 1685; proved June 7, 1689. 

551. Catherine Wade. 

Married : — Bridges Daniel, Esquire. 
Issue : — 

552. John Daniel, b. Jan. 15, 1717. 

552. John (Daniel) Wade, born January 15, 1717. 

Married :— August 28, 1739, (his cousin), Esther, 
(daughter of Robert Shields. Esquire) of Wain- 
ston. 

Issue : — 

553. John Wade I, b. July 11, 1740 ; d. in infancy. 

554. Catharine Wade, b. Aug. 29, 1741 ; d. in infancy. 

555. Anne Wade, b. Sept. 6, 1742. 

556. Clotworthy Wade. b. Oct. 29, 1743 ; d. in infancy. 

557. Kobert Wade I, b. Dec. 15, 1744 ; d. in infancy. 

558. Esther Wade, b. May 3, 1746, m. Rev. Chas. Wood- 

ward. 

559. Elizabeth Wade. b. July 10, 1747. 

560. Michael Wade, b. July 23, 1748 ; died in infancy. 

561. Robert Wade II, b. Aug. 8, 1749. 

562. William Wade, b. July 21, 1750. 

563. Dorothy Wade, b. Feb. 21, 1752. 

564. John Wade II, b. May 28, 1753 ; d. in infancy. 

565. Richard Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1755. 

566. Benjamin Wade, b. June 22, 1756. 

567. Henry Wade, b. Sept. 3, 1757. 

568. Catharine Wade II, b. Mar. 1, 1759. 

569. Rowley Wade, b. Sept. 14, 1761. 

570. Alice Wade, b. March 30, 1762. 

571. Daniel Wade, b. Nov. 8, 1763. 

572. Charles Wade, b. June 4, 1765. 

573. John Wade III, b. 1766. 

[<■) The MS. pedigree compiledby the Reverend Theodore Leggett, 
D.D., of West New Brighton. Staten Island, N.Y., differs from Burke's 
Landed Qeniry, in alleging the existence of a John Wade, son of Henry 
(550), who, having no issue, adopted his nephew Clotworthy Shields, 
as his heir, and died 1735. Clotworthy Shields, who took the name of 
Wade, is alleged to have been killed by a fall from horseback, Jan. 6, 
1745, leaving John Daniel as his heir, who also took the name of 
Wade. 



Famous English Wades. 195 

John (Daniel) Wade died before 1777. He was High 
Sheriff of County Meath in 1748. 

5G1. Robert Wade II, born August 8, 1749. 

Married: — Frances (daughter of Leigh), of 

Drogheda, in 1771. 

Issue : — 

574. William Blayney Wade, b. 1786. 

575. Frances Wade, m. (1) Major EobertTighe,Westmeath 

Militia, M. P. for Carrick-on-Shannon, 1800 ; m. (2) 

Johu Battersby, Esq., J. P. 
57G. Charles Wade. 
577. Thomas Wade. 

Robert Wade was educated at Eton, and Oriel College, 
Oxford. (" Wade Robert, son of John, [formerly Daniels] 
Cloneybraney, County Meath, Armiger, Oriel College. 
Matriculated June 1, 1708, aged 18." Foster's Alumni Oxo- 
nietisis, Vol. IV, p. 1470.) He filled the office of High 
Sheriff of County Meath in 1772; inherited the estate of 
Cloneybraney and died there. 



502. William Wade, born July 21, 1750. 

Married: — Ann Dean (daughter of Richard Dean) 
of New York, August 2, 1780. (She born in New 
York, December 28, 1764; died July 11, 1838.) 

Issue : — 

578. Kichard Dean Arden Wade, b. at New York, Apr. 26, 

17^6. 

579. Anna Wade, m. Charles Ogden ; d. Dec. 18, 1859. 

580. Frances Wade, m. Alexander Bleecker [d] 

581. Eobert Wade, lost at sea on return from Ireland, 

(d) Frances Wade, daughter of William and Ann (Dean) Wade, 
was a famous beauty of old New York. Her miniature, painted by 
Edward Greene Malbone, the noted miniature painter, is in the pos- 
session of one of her grandchildren, William Bleecker Seaman, Es- 
quire, of the New York Society of Colonial Wars, New York. So 
lovely were the lineaments that the miniature was reproduced in steel 
engraving in the annuals of those days under the poetic name of 
Egeria. It has recently been reproduced in color to form the front- 
ispiece to Anne Hollingsworth Wharton's artistic book, lleirlooiiifi 
in Miniatures, Philadelphia (1897), and in halftone faces p. 116, of 
Part II of this book. 



196 The Wade Genealogy. 

William Wade was educated at Eton and Oriel College, 
Oxford, where he matriculated June 1, 1708, aged 17 
{Alumni Oxoniensis, Vol. IV., p. 1470). He declined to enter 
the church, and his father purchased for him a commission 
in the 38th Regiment of the British Army. He was sent 
with his regiment to America and took part in the Battle of 
Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. His cocked hat, pierced by 
an American musket ball at this battle, is to-day in the 
possession of his descendant, the Rev. Theodore Leggett, 
D. D., of West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. Lieut. 
Wade went to Halifax with his regiment on the evacuation of 
Boston, and there purchased a Captaincy in the same regi- 
ment. May ;5, 177G. In June of that year, he was ordered 
to Staten Island, and took part in the Battle of Brooklyn 
in August. While stationed in New York, he met his 
future wife, Ann Dean, one of the belles of the city. She 
was the daughter of Richard Dean, an Irish gentleman 
residing in New York city. An entry of the marriage 
license is preserved at Albany. Her sister married Sir 
Alexander Hamilton. William Wade resigned his com- 
mission in the British service and settled in New York, 
engaging in commerce. We find from Livermore's His- 
tory of Coopcrstown, N. Y. (18()2), 12mo., p. 35, that he was 
one of the adventurous pioneers of commerce who settled 
in that township between 1792 and 1797, and engaged in 
business as a merchant. He remained but a year or two, 
and then returned to New York, where he died Septem- 
ber 27. 1799. 

574. William Blayney Wade, born 17SG. 

Married: — Frances (daughter of Sir John Craven 
Carden, Baronet), at Templemore, Tipperary, No- 
vember (j, 1808. 

Issue : — 

582. Robert Craven Wade, b. Dec, 1809. 

583. John Wade. 

William Blayney Wade died at Cloneybraney, July, 1869, 
aged 83. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieu- 




ri!;f.!)-iviAHSHAT, r.i-xmcK wadi:. 



Field-Marshal General George Wade 
(No. 454, pp. 175-182.) 



Famous English Wades. 197 

tenant for County Meath. His wife died abroad, about 
1830. 

577. Thomas Wade. 

Married : — Anne (daughter of William Smythe) of 
Barbaravilla, West Meath. 

Issue : — 

584. Thomas Francis Wade, b. Aug. 35. 1818. 

585. Eichard Blayney Wade. 

Thomas Wade was a gallant officer of the 1:2nd High- 
landers (The Black Watch), rising to the rank of Colonel, 
and dying in 184(3. 

578. Richard Dean Arden Wade, born in New York City, 

April 26, 1796. 
Married:— W^y 12, 1825, Ann McKean Buchanan 
(who died at Savannah, Ga. , June 25, 1860). 

Issue :-- 

586. Johanua Wade, b, March 30, 1826, at Fort Severn, 

Annapolis, Md., m. (1) William Habershaw; m. 
(2) Averill Barlow. 

587. Sarah Elizabeth Merryman Wade, b. Jan. 5, 1828, 

at Fort Trumbull, Conn. ; m. William W. Thomas ; 
d. March 21, 1888. 

588. William Wade, b. April 25, 1831. 

589. Marv Buchanan Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1833. 

590. Harriet Murray Wade, b. April 28, 1835 ; d. Dec. 9, 

1855. 

591. Robert Buchanan Wade, b. Aug. 1, 1844. 

Richard Dean Arden Wade was appointed to the United 
States Military Academy from New York, and graduated 
October 27, 1820, when he was commissioned Second Lieu- 
tenant in the Corps of Artillery. He was transferred to 
the 7th Infantry, June 1, 1821, transferred to the :3rd Artil- 
lery, October 16, 1822, promoted First Lieutenant, Septem- 
ber 10, 1828, and Captain, December 26, 1840. He was 
brevetted Major, November 6, 1841, for gallant and suc- 
cessful service in the war against the Florida Indians, was 
severely wounded at Churubusco (Mexico), and was brev- 
etted Lieutenant Colonel, September 8, 1847, for gallant 



198 The Wade Genealogy. 

and meritorious conduct at the battle of Molino del Rey 
(Mexico). He died at Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, 
N. H., February 13, 1850. 

582. Robert Craven Wade, born at Cloneybraney, County 

Meath, December 6, 1809. 
Married: — 

Issue : — 

592. Craven H. C. Wade. 

593. Heurv Meredith Wade. 

594. Kathleen Elizabeth Wade. 

583. John Wade. 

Married : (daug-hter of ). 

Jssue : — ? 
595. 

584. Thomas Francis Wade, born in London, August 25, 

1818. 
Married : — Amelia, (daughter of Sir John Frederick 
William Herschel and grand-daughter of the cele- 
brated astronomer. Royal) at Westminster Abbey, 
July 28, 1868. 

Issue : — 

596. Son. 

597. Son. 

598. Son. 

599. Son. 

Sir Thomas Francis Wade, who died July 31, 1895, at 
Cambridge, was the elder son of Major (afterward Colonel) 
Thomas Wade of the 42nd highlanders. From his father 
he inherited a rem.arkably tenacious memory and a 
great love of languages. In 1823, his father having 
been appointed Military Secretary at Mauritius, Thomas 
accompanied him thither, and at once began a regular 
course ot study, including Latin. In 1827 he returned 
to England with his mother and sisters, and was sent 
to a private school at Richmond. Two years later he 



Famous English Wades. 199 

joined his father at the Cape, 'and there continued his 
education with a private tutor until 1832. In the sum- 
mer of that year he was sent home, and at the beginning 
of the Michaelmas term was placed at Mr. Drury's house 
at Harrow, where he spent five years. In 1837 he matric- 
ulated from Trinity College, Cambridge, but at the end 
of the year his father, thinking him best fitted for a mili- 
tary career, bought him a commission in the 81st regiment 
of foot, then stationed at Chester. A year later (1839) he 
exchanged into his father's old regiment, the 42nd high- 
landers, and served with that distinguished corps in 
Ireland, and later in the Ionian Islands. Duiing the year 
he spent at Corfu he studied Italian and modern Greek. 
On November 16, 1841, he was promoted to the rank of 
Lieutenant, and on the following day exchanged into the 
98th regiment of foot, which was then under orders for 
active service in China. On December 20 he sailed with 
his new regiment, and arrived at Hongkong in June, 1812. 
During the enforced leisure of this somewhat lengthy 
voyage, Wade began the study of Chinese, and being the 
only officer who had any acquaintance with that little- 
known tongue, he was appointed interpreter to the regi- 
ment by the Colonel, Colin Campbell (afterwards Lord 
Clyde). Only three months after he had joined the regi- 
ment he was appointed Adjutant. He took part with his 
regiment in the attack on Chinkiang Fu, and in the opera- 
tions round Nanking. After the conclusion of peace, the 
regiment returned to Hongkong (1843), where Wade's 
knowledge of Chinese gained him the post of interpreter 
to the garrison, and at the close of 1845, after a visit to 
England on leave, he was appointed interpreter in Can- 
tonese to the Supreme Court of Hongkong. A year later 
he was nominated to the post of assistant Chinese secretary 
to Sir John Davis, who was then superintendent of trade. 
In 1852 he was appointed vice-consul at Shanghai, and 
while holding that office took part in establishing the 
foreign maritime customs. For the administration of this 
new service an international committee was formed, con- 



200 The Wade Genealogy. 

sisting of Wade representing Great Britain, Carr repre- 
senting the United States, and Arthur Smith representing 
France. The largest share of the work fell to Wade, who, 
after having seen the machinery satisfactorily started, re- 
signed his office. In 1855 he was recalled to Hongkong 
as Chinese secretary, and was almost immediately sent on 
a mission to Cochin China, by Sir John Bowring, then 
governor of this colony. 

On the outbreak of the war of 1857 Wade was attached 
to Lord Elgin's special mission, and to him fell the duty 
of negotiating with the Chinese authorities the treaty of 
Tientsin. In 1850 he accompanied (Sir) Frederick William 
Adolphus Bruce to the Peiho, and in the following year 
was attached as Chinese secretary to Lord Elgin's second 
mission, after the defeat of the gunboats at Taku, In all the 
difficult negotiations which followed he bore a leading part, 
and he accom.panied (Sir) Harry Smith Parkes on his first 
visit to Tungchow, where on the following day Parkes, Lord 
Loch and their escort were taken prisoners. With skill and 
patience Wade eventually arranged the release of P-arkes 
and the other survivors of the staff of the first legation in 
Peking. In the following year he was made a C. B., and 
was acting charge d' affaires at Pekin from 186-4 to 1865, 
and from 1869 to 1871, when he was appointed plenipoten- 
tiary. It was during his second tenure of office as charge 
d' affaires that the massacre of foreigners at Tientsin 
occurred. Though the attack was primarily directed against 
Frenchmen, a British subject was among the slain, and 
Wade took a leading part in the protests which led to the 
punishment of certain of the rioters. In 1872 the marriage 
of the Emperor T'ungchih led Wade and his colleagues to 
urge on the Emperor's ministers the propriety of their 
master receiving the foreign representatives in audience, 
and on June 29, 1873, Wade and the other ministers were, 
for the first time, admitted into the imperial presence. In 
the following year a dispute arose between China and 
Japan, which threatened to end in war. Indeed, the Jap- 
anese envoy was on the point of leaving Peking when Wade, 




William Wade, Esq. 
(No. 385, p. !69.) 



i 



Famous English Wades. -^01 

on his own responsibility, undertook that the Chinese gov- 
ernment should accede to the terms put forward by Japan. 
To this eminent service special reference was made in the 
Queen's speech of 1875. 

On February 20, 1875, Augustus Raymond Margary, who 
had been sent across China to Burma to meet Colonel 
Horace Browne's expedition from Burma, was treacher- 
ously murdered on his return journey near Manwyne in 
Yunnan. Wade instantly demanded at Pekin that a full 
inquiry should be made into the circumstances of the 
crime, and after long and trying negotiations, in the course 
of which he more than once threatened to break off diplo- 
matic relations with the Chinese government, he succeeded 
in obtaining a certain amount of compensation and an 
assurance of future protection, and in connection with the 
affair arranged with Li Hung Chang the Chifu convention, 
which after a long interval was ratified by the two govern- 
ments concerned. In 1880 Gordon visited Li Hung Chang 
to consult with him on the threatened war with Russia, 
and in connection with this visit it was stated by Sir 
Henry Gordon that Wade and some of his colleagues had 
suggested that Li Hung Chang should raise the standard 
of rebellion and take possession of the throne. Certainly, 
so far as Wade is concerned, this is not the fact, and the 
rumor was publicly contradicted by him when the state- 
ment first appeared. In 1875 he was made a K. C. B., and 
in 1883 he retired on a pension. 

On his return to England Wade took up his residence at 
Cambridge, and in 1888 was appointed the first professor 
of Chinese at the university. He was elected a profes- 
sorial fellow of King's College. On his death he left his 
large and valuable Chinese library to the university. In 
1889 he was made a G. C. M. G. 

Wade's life was one of action rather than of learned 
leisure, and he had little time for writing. Nevertheless, 
he was author of several works, which remain standard 
books for the study of China and the Chinese. 



202 The Wade Genealogy. 

588. William Wade, born Aprir25, 1831. 

Married: — Susan Robinson Prendergast in Savan- 
nah, Ga., November 28, 18G1. 

Issue : — 

600. Eichard Dean Arden Wade, b. April 15, 1863 ; at- 

torney, Omaha, Neb. 

601. Harriet Murray Wade, b. April 3, 1867. 

()02. William Ogden Wade, b. May 18, 1873; res. (1900), 
Chicago, 111. 

William Wade died in Chicago, December 1, 1899. His 
widow resided there in 1900. 



591. Robert Buchanan Wade, born August 1, 1844. 

J/az-r/V^/ .• —August 27, 1868, at St. Louis, Mo., Isabel 
Neff Budd. 

Issue : — 

m-6. Eobert Budd Wade, b. Oct. 36, 1869. 

604. George Knight Budd Wade, b. Nov. 4,1872. 

605. McKean Buchanan Wade, b. Sept. 27, 1879; d. at 

St. Louis, Mo., May 26, 1888. 

Robert Buchanan Wade was appointed cadet at large 
at the United States Military Academy July 1, 1861. 
He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 17th infantry, 
June 23, 1865, and First Lieutenant the same day. Cap- 
tain, September 29, 1867. Unassigned March 27, 1869. 
On duty at headquarters, 1st Military District. Professor 
of Military Science, Missouri State College, at Columbia, 
Mo. Retired from the army December 31, 1870, and 
entered a real estate firm in St. Louis. Died in Chicago, 
January 8, 1884. His widow resides in St. Louis (1902). 



592. Craven H. C. Wade, born at Cloneybraney, County 
Meath, Ireland, April 14, 1845; resides at Rock- 
field, Wicklow. Is a landed proprietor, a Justice 
of the Peace, and has been on the roll for High 
Sheriff. 



Famous English Wades. 203 

593. Henry Meredith Wade. 

Married: — Eleanor (widow of Lance, Esq.) of 

Glangwilly, Llanpumpsaint, Carmarthenshire, 
South Wales, in March, 1894. 

Issue : — ? 

606. 

Henry Meredith Wade is a retired officer of the British 
Army, having attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel 
of the 8th (or King's Liverpool) regiment. He resides 
at Doward House, Monmouth, England. 

604. George Knight Budd Wade, born November 4, 1872. 

Married : — Theodora T. Knight, in Boston, April 5, 

1899. 

Issue : — 

607. Ruth Wadft, b. at South Orange, N. J., July 11, 
1900. 

George Knight B. Wade is an attorney and counselor of 
the bar of the State of New York; 1902, res. in South 
Orange, N. J. 

Yet another noted Irish Wade and in the fields of botany. 
Unfortunately no trace of his parentage exists. All that 
is knovv'n of him is gathered from an article in the Diction- 
ary of National Biography and is as follows : — 

Wade, (Walter) died 1825. Irish botanist, was a physi- 
cian, practicing in Dublin in 1790. Aylmer Bourke Lam- 
bert, in a letter to (Sir) James Edward Smith, states that 
through Wade's exertions a grant of £,?>0{)^ was obtained 
to establish the botanic garden at Dublin, and that he 
intended publishing a work entitled '"' Flora Diibiinensis.'" 
(Memoir and correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith, 
II, 126-7.) Undated folio sheets of this proposed work exist, 
with plates, under the title, ^^ Florce Dublinensis Specimen," 
but it was never carried out. In 1794 Wade published 
" Catalogus Systematictis Plantar um indigenarum in comitatti 
Dublinensi . . . pars prima," on the title page of which he 
describes himself as M. D., licentiate of the King's and 
Queen's College of Physicians, and lecturer on botany. 



204 The Wadk Genealogy. 

This work is in Latin (375 pages, 8vo.), arranged on the 
Linnsean system, with carefully verified localities and 
indexes of the Latin, English, and Irish names, the sedges 
and cryptogamic plants being reserved for a second part, 
which was never published. Lady Kane, in her anonymous 
'■'•Irish Flora'" (Dublin, 1833, 12mo.), says of this work 
(preface, p. 7) that it was "the first that appeared in 
Ireland under a systematic arrangement, and that its 
author may be justly considered as the first who diffused 
a general taste for botany in this country." Wade visited 
various parts of Ireland in search of plants: in 1796 and 
in 1805 he was in Kerry (ib, II, p. 160), and in 1801 in Con- 
nemara, " a district . . . never examined by any botanist 
before" (ib. p. 148), when he was the first to find the 
pipewort {Eriocaulon) in Ireland. In 1802 he issued a full 
" Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Botany,''" (Dublin, p. 50, 
8vo.), on the title page of which he is described as "pro- 
fessor and lecturer on botany to the Right Honourable and 
Honourable the Dubliii Society." This syllabus is largely 
historical, and refers to the arrangement of the Glasnevin 
botanical garden. Wade's second work of importance, 
however, was " Flantce rariores in Hibernid inventce,'" (Dublin, 
1804, p. 214, 8vo. ), an English work, reprinted from the 
" Transadiofis of the Dublin Society," (1803, Vol. IV.). About 
this time Wade was awarded a prize of ;£b by the Dublin 
Society for the discovery of mosses new to Ireland (Lon- 
don, Magazine of Natural History, 1829, II., 305); and on the 
title of his " Sketch of Lectures on Meadow and Pasture Grasses 
delivered in the Dublin Society's Botanical Garden, Glasnevin," 
(Dublin, 1808, p. 55, 8vo.), he is described as physician 
to the Dublin General Dispensary and lecturer on botany 
to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 1811 he 
published '^ Salices, or an Essay towards a General History of 
Willows," (Dublin, 8vo. ), his chief remaining independent 
work. Wade died in Dublin in 1825. He had been elected 
an associate of the Linnean Society in 1792. Besides the 
VvTorks already mentioned, he published " Sketch of Lectures 
on Artificial or Sown Grasses," (Dublin, 1808, p. 51, 8 vo.), 



Famous English Wades. 205 

cataloo^ues of the Glasnevin Garden, and several papers in 
the Dublin vSociety's Transactions (Vols. II. -VI.), of which 
the most important are on '' Buddlea Globosa, Hokusodoratus" 
and "'Oaks,'' the latter in the main a translation from Mich- 
aux's '■''Chhies de V Amerique septentrionale^'" (Royal Society's 
Catalogue of Scientific Papers, VI, 221). He also projected 
a work entitled " Flora Hiber/iica^'' which never appeared. 

We turn finally to talents tarnished and abilities thrown 
to the winds. It is the pitiful life story of Joseph Augus- 
tine Wade (179()?-1845) the Irish musical composer. He 
was, according to his biographer in the Dictionary of National 
Biography^ born in Dublin in 179G or 1797. His father is 
said to have been a, dairyman near Thomas Street, Dublin. 
He was a school-fellow of Richard Robert Madden at 
Chaigneau's Academy, Usher Street, Dublin, from about 
1814 to 181G. Wade is said to have been a student at 
Trinity College, Dublin, to have been a junior clerk in the 
Irish record office, and to have studied anatomy at the 
Irish College of Surgeons, but none of the records of the 
institutions bear any traces of his name, though in late 
years he may, with William Rooke, have found employ- 
ment in the record office. Equal uncertainty surrounds 
his early musical education; he was probably self-taught. 
He quitted Dublin and married a lady of fortune, a Miss 
Kelly of Garnaville, near Athlone, but he soon became 
tired of her. A song of his exists addressed to "Lovely 
Kate of Garnavilla." On his return to Dublin he is said to 
have acquired considerable skill as an anatomist and sur- 
geon in the Irish capital. Surgery was, however, soon 
abandoned, and Wade became a poet-musician. Sir John 
Andrew Stevenson, recognizing his great gift of melody, 
advised Wade to apply for the University chair of music 
dormant since 1774, after the resignation of Lord Morning- 
ton, but the matter fell through. Wade migrated to Lon- 
don, where he became conductor of the opera during 
Monck Mason's regime. An oratorio by him, "■The 
Prophecy' from Pope's ^^Messiair was produced at Covent 
Garden Theatre on March 24, 1824; his opera, ''The Two 



206 The Wade Genealogy. 

Houses of Gt-ana da,'' of which he wrote both words and 
music, was first performed at Drury Lane on 31 October, 
182G, with Braham as Don Carlos. In the same year (1820) 
he composed and published his most successful song, of 
which he also wrote the words, ''Meet me by Moonlight Alone," 
which had extraordinary popularity. It enjoyed the good 
fortune to be further immortalized by the witty Father 
Prout in Frasers Magazine (October, 1834, p. 480), in a 
French garb: — 

Viens an bosquet, ce soir, sans tc'moin, 
Dans la vallon, an clair de la Inne, 

A man of remarkable gifts and acquirements as a writer 
of lyrics, a composer, a violinist, and a journalist, witty 
and quick in perception. Wade became dissipated to the last 
degree. He drank to excess, and latterly acquired the 
habit of taking opium. For the last few years of his life 
he was almost unknown. He did some editorial work for 
the house of Chappell & Co. at a salary of ;^300 a year, and 
in that capacity, with William Crotch and (Sir) George 
Alexander Macfarren, he harmonized some of the airs of 
W. Chappell's ''Popular Music of the Olden Time',' originally 
published in 1840 as "A Collection of National English Airs" ; 
he also contributed to "Bentley's Miscellany" and the Illus- 
trated London Ne7vs, but he could never be relied upon. 
He died penniless, in a state of mental derangement, 
at his lodgings, 450 Strand, on July 15, 1845. His 
first christian name appears in the death registers at 
Somerset House as Joseph (not John) and his surname as 
Ward. His first wife having died childless. Wade subse- 
quently formed some irregular matrimonial connections, 
and at his death a subscription was raised for his presumed 
widow and her two destitute children. Wade's character 
may be best summarized in the words of the Rev. John 
Richardson {Recollections, 1855, 1,231): "A wise man in 
theory and a fool in practice. A vigororous intellect; 
planning everything, performing nothing. Always in 
difficulties, having the means at hand to extricate himself 
from their annoyance, yet too apathetic to arouse himself 



Famous English Wades. 20? 

to an effort; content to dream away his time in any occu- 
pation but that which the requisitions of the occasion 
demanded." 

In addition to the works already mentioned, Wade com- 
posed: ''The Pupil of Da Vinci" (operetta by Mark Lemon), 
"■Polish Melodies" (words and music), 1831, "^ Woodlana 
Z(/>"'(polacca interpolated into Weber's ''■Der Freischutz" 
and sung by Braham),"^^«i,'- of the Flowers" (2 books), 1827-8; 
many pianoforte pieces, arrangements, etc., and also 
many vocal duets and songs. He compiled a ''Handbook for 
the Pianoforte,'" which he dedicated to Listz. As a com 
poser he is now forgotten. He left a "History of Music" in 
manuscript. 

A final word as to Wades in the principality of Wales. The 
question first arose when the compiler was confronted with 
the arms, crest and motto adopted by the Wades of New 
Jersey (see chapter III), who, beneath the arms and crest 
of Wade of Kilnsay, Yorkshire, added the Welsh motto 
Y fynno Dwy y fydd (What God willeth shall be). In rela- 
tion to this family, and as will be seen in the appropriate 
chapter, some variations of the family tradition would- 
ascribe a Welsh origin for the emigrant ancestor, Benjamin 
Wade. But investigation and probability fail to aid the 
claim. 

Wade as a name is not Cymric. Early as was the grad- 
ual invasion of the Marches and of Wales proper, it 
must needs have included several lusty Wades as actors in 
the drama and as squires or men-at-arms. But recent and 
careful search in Wales proves that the only case of Wades 
being in Wales for any length of time, occurs in Pembroke- 
shire, where they came from Ireland during the time the 
Protestants were persecuted. The earliest traces are David 
Wade of Steynton, in the County of Pembroke, will proved 
1017, but missing from the Registry — John Wade of Roach, 
Pembrokeshire, will proved 1017; wife's name Jane Lloyd 
Wade — David Wade of Monkton, Pembrokeshire, will 
proved 1027 — George Wade .of Manorbear, Pembroke- 
shire, will proved July 30, 1070; the will mentions his wife 
Mary and eldest son John. This family is represented by 
Dr. T. Wade Richards of Cardiff, and Arthur Wade Evans, 
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210 The Wade Genealogy. 

As an example of the utter unreliability of family tradi- 
tion, precious as it is to female genealogists (?) of the Mail 
and Express stripe, the compiler draws attention to the 
pedigree of Wade printed in ''The Proceedings of the Historical 
Society of Lancashire and Cheshire^'' Vol. Ill (1849), pp. 85-99, 
where, in an account of Church Minshull, in the County of 
Chester, mention is made of an old family of Wades there 
located, and of a well-settled local as well as family tradi- 
tion, that Field Marshal General George Wade (as to whom 
see atite, pp. 175-182), was of this family and tvas buried in 
the old Wade tomb in Minshull churchyard ! Except for this 
extraordinary mis-statement there is little to be gleaned 
from the pedigree, which may be stated as follows: — 



700- Hugh Wade of Church Minshull, in the County of 
Chester, born about 1540, or before that. 
Married: — Anne (daughter of ). 

Issue: — 

701. Margaret Wade, bapt. May 24, 1563. 

702. Richard Wade, bapt. Aug. 23, 1565. 

703. Isabel! Wade, bur. Aug. 8, 1580. 

? 704. Hugh Wade, bur. March 15, 1621. 

705. George Wade. ) + • „ bur. June 10, 1580. 

706. Francis Wade, S ^^^°^' bapt. Sept. 30. 1573. . 

707. John Wade, bapt. May 5, 1575. 

708. Anne Wade, bapt. April 21, 1577; bur. June 18, 1580. 

709. Edward Wade, bapt. March 19. 1581; bur. July 25, 1590. 

Hugh Wade was buried at Church Minshull, April 11, 
1597. His wife Anne, left ^0.13.4. to the poor of the 
parish. 



702. Captain Richard Wade, baptized at Minshull, August 
23, 15G5. 
Married: (daughter of ). 

Issue: — 

710. Edward Wade, bapt. Aug. 21, 1614. 

711. Mary Wade, bur. Oct. 15, 1617. 

712. Peter Wade, bapt. Dec. 19, 1619. 



Famous English Wades. 211 

704. Hugh Wade (perhaps son of Hugh). 
Married: — 

Issue: — 

713. Hugh Wade, bapt. Aug. 20, 1628; bur, April 8, 1703. 
Hugh Wade was buried at Minshull, March 15, 1(121. 

713. Hugh Wade, baptized August 20, 1628. 
Married: . 

Issue: — 

714. Edward Wade, bapt. March 10, 1657; bur. Feb. 14, 1735. 

715. Peter Wade, bur. Dec. 17, 1669. 

716. Mary Wade, bur. Julya5, 1678. 

Hugh Wade was buried April 8, 1703, at Minshull. 



714. Edward Wade, baptized March 10, 1657. 

Married: — Ann (daughter of ) ; buried Septem- 
ber 7, 1727. 

Issue: — 

717. Peter Wade of Middlewich, bapt. Feb. 20, 1682. 

718. Anne Wade, bapt. May 1, 1684. 

719. Elizabeth Wade, bapt, July 22, 1688. 

720. Jane Wade, bapt. Jan. 28, 1690; mar. 1721, John de 

Bank of Leek. 

721. Edward Wade, lived in London; bapt. July 31, 1963. 

722. Susannah Wade, bapt. April 26, 1696; mar. May 30, 

1717, John Sidebotham of Congleton. 

723. James Wade. bapt. Feb. 21, 1698; bur. July 28, 1743. 

724. Richard Wade, bapt. Oct. 27, 1701; bur. July 6, 1720. 

Edward Wade was buried at Minshull, February 14, 1735. 



717. Peter Wade of Middlewich, baptized February 20, 
1682. 

Married: — Mrs. Mary Whittingham, June 8, 1721. 

Issue: — 

725. Eichard Wade, bur. Feb. 8, 1736. 
Peter Wade was buried at Minshull, April 6, 1746. 

723. James Wade, baptized February 21, 1698. 

Married: — Anna ; buried May 4, 1730. 



212 The Wade Genealogy. 

Issue: — 

726. Edward Wade, bur. Dec. 26, 1728. 

727. Ann Wade, bapt. July 26, 1728; bur. Dec. 26, 1728. 

James Wade was buried at Minshull, July 28, 1743. 

It remains to chronicle an industrious writer who has 
defied identification as to his ancestors. The Dictionary of 
National Biography includes John Wade (1788-1875), who 
was an industrious writer connected with the English 
press throughout his career. He contributed to many 
periodicals, and was an esteemed leader writer on the 
Spectator when that paper was under Robert Stephen 
Rintoul's editorship between 182S and 1858. As an 
author, his greatest success was "TV/*? Black Book, or 
Corruption Unmasked! Being an Account of Persons^ Places, ana 
Sinecures f 1820-3, 2 Vols. Published by Effingham Wilson, 
and brousfht out when the reform excitement was com- 
mencing, it produced a considerate sensation, and fifty 
thousand copies were sold. With some alterations in the 
title it was reproduced in 1831, 1832, and 1835. In 182G 
he wrote for Longman's ^' The Cabinet Laicyer; a Popular 
Digest of the Laws of England f the twenty-fifth edition of 
which appeared in 1829. Another popular work was 
''British History, chronologically arranged" 1839; supplement 
1841; 3rd edition 1844; 5th edition 1847. 

Effingham Wilson paid Wade so much a week for years 
while he was compiling the '■'■British History,"' and supplied 
him with all the necessary works of reference {AtJmmum, 
1875, II, 576). Wade also edited an annotated ''Junius,'' 
including letters by the same writer under other 
signatures (1850, in Bohn's Standard Library, 2 Vols.) 
Here he was out of his depth, and the imperfections of 
his edition and specially of his introduction, were pointed 
out by Charles W. Dilke in the Athenceum of February 2 
et seg. (reprinted in Dilke's "Papers of a Critic," 1875,11, 47- 
124). Literature he did not find a profitable employment, 
and his main dependence in his later years was a civil 
list pension of ^50, granted to him June 19, 1862, by Lord 
Palmerston, chiefly on the representation of Effingham 



Famous English Wades. 213 

Wilson. He was a vice-president of the historical section 
of the Institution d'Afrique of Paris. 

He died at Chelsea on September 29, 1875, and was 
buried in Kensal Green Cemetery on 2 October. 

Besides the work already mentioned he wrote: 1. ^^Digest 
of Facts and Principles on Batiking,'' 182G. 2. "^« Account of 
Public Charities in England and Wales," 1828. 3. '''Annual 
Abstract of Neiu Arts and Law Cases," 1828. 1. "^ Treatise on 
the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis " 1829. 5. ''History of the 
Middle and Working Classes, Also an Appendix of Prices," 1833, 
3rd edition, 1835. 0. "Glances at the Times and Reform 
Govertimejit," 1810, five editions. 7. "Unrefornied Abuses in 
Church and State," \^^^. 8. "England's Greatness, Its Rise ana 
Progress, from the Earliest Period to the Peace of Paris," 1856. 
0. ' ' Women, Past and Present, Exhibiting their Social Vicissitudes, 
Single and Matrimonial Relations, Rights, Privileges and Wrongs," 
1859. 10. "The Cabinet Gazetteer, a Popular Exposition of the 
Countries of the World," 1853. 

Last, but not least in the list of English Wades worthies, 
let us place Thomas Wade (1805-1875), the poet, who was 
the son of Searles Wade of Woodbridge, Suffolk (see ante, 
p. 67), where he was born in 1805. He must have come to 
London young, probably possessed of a moderate compe- 
tence, and the miscellaneous knowledge evinced in a volume 
of poems published before he attained his majority, seems 
to indicate a self-educated man. This little book, "Tasso ana 
the Sisters . . . Poems" (London, 1825, 8vo.), with a preface, 
dated December, 1824, in the main reflects the style of 
Byron and Moore, but the longest and best piece, " The 
Nuptials of Juno," betrays the strongest influence from 
Shellev's "Witch of Atlas." It is full of glowing fancy, and 
exhibits a command of language and rhythm which the 
writer rarely attained afterwards. For some time Wade's 
attention was chiefly given to the drama. " IVoman's Love, 
or the Triumph of Patience," afterwards entitled "Duke 
Andrea," a play founded on the story of Griselda, was per- 
formed at Covent Garden in December, 1828, and succeeded 
through the fine acting of Charles Kemble in the principal 



214 The Wade Genealogy. 

character; it was published in duodecimo in 1829, and went 
through two editions. " The Phrenologists," a farce (Janu- 
ary, 1830), was likewise successful; but " The Jew of Arra- 
gon, or the Hebrew Queen,'' a tragedy (in five acts and in 
verse), produced at Covent Garden in October of that same 
year, though supported not only by Charles but by Fanny 
Kemble, was literally howled off the stage on account of 
the partiality shown to the Jews. Wade, nothing daunted, 
published his play with a dedication to the Jews of Eng- 
land, and restored in capitals the passages expunged by the 
licenser on political grounds (London, 12mo.). About this 
time he composed two other unacted tragedies. One 
'' Elfrida," is lost; the manuscript of the other "-Kino- 
Henry II,'' is in the possession of Mr. Buxton Forman, 
who describes it as " Elizabethan, but not imitative," and 
considers it a stronger work than either of the published 
dramas. Wade now became a frequent contributor of 
poetry to the Monthly Repository, an asylum for much of 
the unacknowledged genius, or merely ambitious strivings, 
of that period of interregnum between Byron and Tenny- 
son. His contributions, with many other poems, appeared 
in March, 1835, in a volume fancifully entitled '' Mundi et 
Cordis, de Rebus sempiternis et temporariis, Carmina.'" It was 
known among contemporary men of letters by its short 
title of '' Mundi et Cordis Carmina," and in 1837 Wade 
advertised it under the English name, " Songs of the Uni- 
verse and of the Heart." This collection, equally with 
Browning's '^Pauline," published two years earlier, indi- 
cates the extent to which English poetry was becoming 
influenced by Shelley, and, with all its numerous and pro- 
voking imperfections,'retains on this account a permanent 
value. Wade next began the publication of short poems 
in pamphlet form, intended to be ultimately united into a 
volume. " The Contention of Death and Love," an apotheosis 
of a dying poet, with especial allusion to Shelley": 
"■Helena," a narrative poem too closely imitating Keats's 
'■'■Isabella"; and " The Shadow Seeker" appeared simultane- 
ously in 1837; " Prothanasia," a powerful blank verse study 



Famous English Wades. 215 

of suicidal impulse, suggested by the history of Caroline 
von Gunderode, with other shorter poems, in 1839. These 
little verse pamphlets, rarer than even the original issues 
of a kindred undertaking, Browning's ''•Bells and Pome- 
grafiates^" are scarcely ever to be met united. Mr. Buxton 
Forman has reprinted the " Contention of Death and Love,'' 
and '' Helena,'' in '^ Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century. " 
While thus ineffectually contending for the poetic laurel 
Wade had married Lucy Bridgman, a widow well-known 
as a pianist, under her maiden name of Eager, and the 
union proved most fortunate. His means had been partly 
invested in Bell's Weekly Messenger, which he edited for 
a time, but eventually he disposed of his interest, in con- 
sequence of disagreements with his partner, and, probably 
impaired resources, retired to Jersey, where for many 
years he successfully conducted the British Press. He 
continued to contribute verses to the magazines, but made 
no sustained poetical effort except in the '' Afo?iologue of 
Konrad," from the '' Dziady" of Mickiewicz (derived 
through a French prose version of 1834), and a translation 
of Dante's '' Lnferno," noteworthy as the first English 
version in the original metre, executed in 1845 and 1846. 
'T:\\e '' Monologue of L<onrad" was published in the Lllumi- 
nated Magazine of 1845 (a volume edited by W. J. Linton). 
Mr. Buxton Forman, who possesses the manuscript of the 
Dante, has published a specimen of no slight merit in 
" Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteeth Century," " What does Ha?n- 
let mean?" a lecture delivered in 1855 (printed in Jersey) 
would be a remarkable essay if we could suppose Wade to 
have been unacquainted with Goethe's criticism in " Wil- 
helm Meister," but this is not likely to have been the case. 
His acquaintance with modern languages and literature 
was evidently expansive. He continued to write until 
1871. Some of his later sonnets have been printed by Mr. 
Forman in '•'Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century." He 
died in Jersey, on September 19, 1875. 

From the internal evidence of his writings, Wade would 
seem to have been a sensitive enthusiast of strong domestic 



216 The Wade Genealogy. 

affections, but at the same time manly and independent. 
He was an advanced liberal in politics and religion. No 
author of his time has left less tangible biographic memor- 
ial. The only anecdote preserved is Fanny Kemble's testi- 
mony to the fortitude with which he bore the failure of 
his tragedy. As a poet he is interesting but disappointing. 
His poetical feeling is most genuine; but devoid as he is 
of the most elementary notion of form, and, what is more 
remarkable, of any gift of spontaneous melody, it is in 
general but warmth without light. His efforts to say fine 
things too frequently result in extravagance. Occasionally, 
however, as in the '"'' Contention of Death and Love'' marred as 
even this is by vicious diction, he kindles for a while into 
true lyrical ardor, and shows he has more in him than he 
can bring out. His plays are not highly effective, yet in 
them he is always the poet, never the mere playwright. 
His place in literary history is not unimportant as perhaps 
the purest example of the new influences which began to 
operate in English literature after the death of Shelley. 

One word more as to the Wades settled in Ireland. vSince 
the publication of Part I. of the Wade Genealogy, the com- 
piler has received many letters, some pitying, some vitu- 
perative, from Irish purchasers of his book, as to the 
existence of a sept of Wades in Ireland's early history. 
One genius, presumably an honor graduate of some mono- 
hippie and Micktheological institution, has ventured to 
waste his invective on the entirety of Chapter I., which he 
imagines was manufactured out of whole cloth ! It will interest 
such geniuses to learn that the hated Sassenach in taking 
the census of Ireland in [1890, was only able to find thirty 
persons of the name of Wade dwelling in all Ireland, and 
of these, seven dwelt in Ulster, which certainly was English 
and Scotch in its settlement. The compiler will endeavor 
later to do full justice to those black swans — the autoc- 
thonal Irish Wades — in a special compilation entitled "The 
History ot the McWade, O'Wade and Pat Wade Sept, 
deduced from the Earliest Common Informer, the Honora- 
ble J. Iscariot ; to which is attached the Irish Bartenders' 




David Everktt Wade. 

(No. 1088. New Jersey.) 



Famous English Wades. 217 

and Hod-carriers' Directory." For this reverent effort to 
do an act of justice to a mystery of the ages, he will en- 
deavor to obtain an impriviatur. Till its issue those who 
desire to hew Agag in pieces before the Lord m the columns 
of sectarian publications, are requested to moderate their 
transports, and taking a feather or two out of the wings 
of their eloquence, to place the same in the tail of their 
judgment. 

Were it desirable to enlarge on the English branch of 
the Wade family, ample material could be obtained from 
' 'Musgraves Obiiuary'' published by the Harleian Society. 
That indefatigable necrologist chronicled the decease of no 
less than 45 Wades of prominence and note, and gives 
references to printed accounts of them. But limits of 
space forbid and the enumeration of the English Wades 
must conclude"with several minor pedigrees of Wades from 
Herald's Visitations, etc., the balance -of the unconnected 
and disjointed English Wade material being reserved for 
printing in appendix form (if at all) on account of the lack 
of English interest, and the pressing requirements of 
American subscribers. 



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Wir^LiAM Ckcili Wade, Esq. 
(No. 28(3, p. 144.) 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 225 

CHAPTER III. 

The Genealogy of Wade of New Jersey and Ohi(_. 

It was a simple but not an ill ancestry, this that turned away from 
the sea-coast forever and beg^an the making of another world. It was 
the strong-limbed, the bold-hearted who traveled, the weak who 
stayed at home. Let us picture for ourselves this first restless Amer- 
ican, this West-bound man. We must remember that there had been 
two or three full American generations to produce him, this man who 
first dared turn awav from the seaboard and set his face toward the 
sinking of the sun, toward the dark and mysterious mountains and 
forests which then encompassed the least remote land fairly to be 
called the West. Two generations had produced a man different from 
the Old-World type. Free air and good food had given him abun- 
dant brawn. He was tall, with Anak in his frame. Little fat cloyed 
the free play of his muscles, and there belonged to him the heritage 
of that courage which comes of good heart and lungs. He was a 
splendid man to have for an ancestor, this tall and florid athlete who 
never heard of athletics. His face was thin and aquiline, his look high 
and confident, his eye blue, his speech reserved. — Franklin Hough in 
The Century Magazine. 

Considering and dealing with the various families of 
Wade, we now reach the notable and numerous family 
of Wade of New Jersey, and afterwards of Ohio, {c) This 
branch dates, so far as any researches in American 
records can disclose, from. Benjamin Wade, born in 1G4G, 
who came from Jamaica in Long Island, New York, 
about 1675, and settled at Wade's Farms or Connect- 
icut Farms (now formed into Union Township, but 
then in the Township of Elizabeth, New Jersey). Herein- 
after will be found a full discussion of his probable ances- 
try. 

One thing is certain as to this family of the Wades. The 
descendants of Benjamin have not only increased and 
multiplied in scriptural ^fashion, but have furnished an 
honorable quota to the roll of men who have deserved well 



(e) It was originally the intention of the compiler to deal with the 
Massachusetts branch of the Wade family in Chapter III, as following 
in strict chronological sequence the arrivals in America. But the 
general lack of interest shown by the living members of this branch, 
the hope that examination of some of the English wills may shew the 
parentage of Nathaniel Wade, and the far more substantial support 
accorded the compiler by the New Jersey familj"-, are responsible for 
this change in his plans. The families merely change places, the 
Massachusetts branch appearing in Chapter IV. 
[15] 



226 The Wade Genealogy. 

of the republic. This roll of honor is of no small size. It 
was an early ancestor, Robert Wade, born before 1727, who 
is said to have been captured by the French in the colonial 
wars, and died, a prisoner of war, in a fortress of sunny 
France, while Annias Wade was also a soldier in the 
French and Indian War, 1759. Nor were these all of the 
heroes, as a glance^at New Jersey's soldiers of the Revolu- 
tion will show. 

From the New Jersey records, the compiler was enabled, 
by the courtesy of the late Gen. William Scudder Stryker, 
that genial antiquarian and most efficient Adjutant-Gen- 
eral of the State of New Jersey, to present a list of no less 
than twenty-one members of the family who were of the 
immortal band, fighting for freedom and all that liberty 
implied. They range in rank from Major Nehemiah 
Wade, who died in the service from exposure, to the 
simple private soldier, who enlisted on the first call for 
troops, suffered on the prison ship or served in the New 
Jersey line until Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. 

Another, and somewhat later member of the family, 
Major William Wade, was a prominent officer in the United 
States Army in the War of 1812. He was one of the organ- 
izers of the present Ordnance Department of the Army, 
and his mechanical abilities and investigations won for 
him mention in ^^ Encyclopedia Bt-itannica,'" (Volume XXII, 
p. 597). The War of 1812 also brought six other members 
of the family to the service of New Jersey, as Captain, 
Paymaster, Quartermaster-Sergeant, Corporal or Private. 

Then the pleasant places of Ohio began to attract the 
Wades and they set out to take their part, and no small 
one, in the winning and the building of the great golden 
West. 

"It was a land of Promise — the bed of a great pri- 
maeval lake — where the mound-builders once had erected 
their weird fortifications. Then the land stood empty 
until in time came Indians, and after the Indians the 
French, and after the French the English, each claiming 
freehold, and each in turn displaced, till at last, with no 
little rumble of wagon wheels and no uncertain sound of 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 237 

ringing axe, came the American citizen who," as RoDin 
Lynde Hart says " grubbed up roots, chopped down trees, 
built a rude cabin of buckeye logs, and set about getting 

himself elected President of the United States 

. . . Now when I think of the industrial history of the 
Ohioans, I ask myself two questions: What kind of a man 
came first to conquer the wilderness ? What kind of wil- 
derness had that man to conquer ? The kind of man was 
a miracle of rugged hardihood, virile, enduring, bellig- 
erent. Think of his record in battles! 1812 put every 
able bodied Ohioan in the field. The state sent more 
troops to Mexico than any other northern commonwealth. 
'Ohio ' is written all over the National Cemetery at Chick- 
amauga. Once the Buckeyes disputed the Michigan boun- 
dary, and flung an army upon the frontier. In this recent 
Cuban business men fought with one another like jungle 
beasts for place in the ranks. Nine-tenths of the Ohioans 
are for holding the Philippine Islands. Such men as these 
loved a fight with the forest; men of lesser fortitude would 
never have pioneered. Then, with how brilliant a dramatis 
personae that age-long play began. There was first an era 
of falling trees. Settlers clad in linsey shirts and buck- 
skin trousers, tracked the wild turkey, shot the deer, picked 
off the squirrel from the tallest oak, or toiled all day among 
stubborn roots, and made merry by night in log huts while 
wolves howled at the door. Meantime their wives made 
moan with honest Touchstone : 'Ay, now am I in Arden ; 
the more fool I ; when I was at home I was in a better 
place; but travelers must be content.' Then the kind of 
land rewarded the kind of" man. There followed an epoch 
of growing crops. Corn stood glistening on the red 'bot- 
toms,' wheat waved in the continual strong winds, vast 
fields were brown with the bearded barley. The Buckeye 
State was suddenly so filled with good things to eat that 
there were not mouths enough to eat them. What with 
Jerseymen settling Symme's Purchase, Connecticut farmers 
flocking into the Western Reserve, pioneers from Mass- 
achusetts taking up the lands of the Ohio Company, Penn- 
sylvania developing the Seven Ranges, men from Norfolk 
and Richmond peopling the Virginia Military District, 
while a nondescript populace assembled in the United 
States Military Reserve, the resultant commonwealth still 
shows more or less distinct traces of its varied lineage." 

The men from the East who laid the foundations of the 

five great States which occupy the old North West Terri- 



228 The Wade Genealogy. 

tory, were farmers and artisans — poor in purse, but rich 
in the elements of character. They carried with them the 
patient energy which makes farms and cities, and the love 
of orderly liberty which builds commonwealths. 

" It was by slow and painful steps that the first immi- 
grants made their way through the dense forests and 
mountains of Pennsylvania, until they reached the Monon- 
gahela or Allegheny, and abandoned their wagons for the 
rude craft which bore them down the Ohio to plant their 
first settlements along its shores. Thus it was that for 
nearly thirty years Ohio received the whole volume of 
emigration, so that in 1810 it counted a population of 230, 
7(iO — six times that of all the rest of the North West." 

Today Columbia, in Hamilton County, Ohio, commemo- 
rates on a centennial inscription, Thom^as C. Wade, of this 
family, one of the first boatload of pioneers, landing there 
in 1788, and founding the Baptist Church, the first Protes- 
tant place of worship organized in the then, new North 
West. 

Cincinnati honors and remembers her David E. Wade 
(1762-1842), a hero of the prison ships, who founded the 
first church in that city, lived there half a century, and 
saw fully fifty Houses of God grow up around his initial 
offering in the service of his Creator. His son, Melan- 
cthon Smith Wade (1802-1868) was a '.Brigadier-General 
of United States Volunteers and an active Union man, 
in spite of illness, in those dark days of 1801, when treason 
stalked in- high places and men plotted against the flag 
that made them free. 

To this same family belongs a gifted American author 
in the person of Mrs. Margaret Deland, famous not only 
for her well-known novel '''John Ward, Preacher" (1888), but 
for a number of exquisite stories of New England life. 

Lastly and chiefest of all, this family cherishes the 
memory of Jeptha Homer Wade, the elder (1811-1890), the 
noble-souled philanthropist of Cleveland, Ohio; the pioneer 
of Western telegraphy; and first President of what is now 
the Western Union Telegraph Company. His life, as 
will be seen from his biography hereinafter printed, was 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 229 

one grand open book of great deeds well done, while his 
unselfish solicitude for the welfare of his fellowmen has 
founded monuments more enduring than] bronze in Wade 
Park, Cleveland, and upon the buildings and in the bene- 
faction rolls of many excellent charities. Of him it was 
well said at the time of his decease, full of years and honor, 
that the city of his home had been greatly benefitted for 
his having lived there. The cool glades of Wade Park, 
donated by him to the city of Cleveland, the Orphan 
Asylum, located in the handsome fireproof building con- 
structed at his expense, are in them.selves lasting' memor- 
ials of his public-spirited generosity. He was head of the 
movement which gave Cleveland the beautiful Lake View 
Cemetery, and was President of the commission which 
planned, financed and erected the Garfield monument. In 
a word, he was a philanthropist, in the truest sense of the 
word. 

Loyal to the core, as Jeptha Homer Wade was, his son, 
Randall Palmer Wade (1835-1876), wore the shoulder-straps 
of a Union officer in that most momentous conflict of modern 
times. In conclusion, and no one knows this better than 
the present compiler, it is Jeptha Homer Wade and his 
grandson, Jeptha Homer Wade, Junior, that the Wade 
family owe most if not all of the present book. They first 
commenced the collection of genealogical data relative to 
the family, and to their investigations, the compiler gladly 
acknowledges, the entirety of the present chapter is due. 

Mention must also be made of Elias Wade, a famous 
merchant of old-time New York; of George Washington 
Wade, one of those heroes 

"Whose wasted figures fill 

The patriot graves of a nation," 

and who awaits his Great Commander and the Last 

Reveille on the site of the prison pen at Andersonville; of 

William Wade of Pittsburg, famed for his efforts towards 

improving the breed of man's most faithful friend among 

the dumb creation — the dog; and of scores of others duly 

commemorated on the following pages, who, each in his or 



230 The Wade Genealogy. 

her chosen vocation, fought the good fight and proved the 
truth of Tennyson's dictum: 

'Tie only noble to be good; 

Kind hearts are more than coronets 
And simple faith than Norman blood. 

This brief resume ended, it now remains to unroll the 
pedigree of Wade of New Jersey, commencing with Ben- 
jamin Wade, the ancestor, and in so doing to discuss 
every possible clue as to the birthplace and origin of the 
first of this branch of the New Jersey Wade family to 
appear on American soil. 

The earliest American traces of Benjamin Wade, the 
ancestor are to be found in the account of the first settlers 
of the town of Elizabeth, N. J., printed in Hatfield s 
''History of EHzabet/i" (pp. 172-173). The extract is ver- 
batim as follows: 

"Benjamin Wade was a clothier. He was, doubtless, of 
the family (probably a son) of Robert Wade, who was at 
Dorchester, Mass., in 1635, at Hartford, Conn., in KUO, 
afterwards at Saybrook (where, August, 1057, he was 
divorced), and finally at Norwich in 1G50, where he died in 
1G82. His first wife remained in England, and Benjamin 
may have been her son. He came here (to Elizabeth) not 
later than 1G75, probably much earlier. 

At his first coming, he rented Luke Watson's house and 
grounds, which he purchased, March IGth, 1G7G-7, for ^2-1. 
The same day he bought of Nicholas Carter, for £,?>(), pay- 
able in pipe staves, his house lot and 40 acres. Twenty 
days before he had bought for ^30, Thomas Pope's house, 
house-lot and 60 acres of upland. Less than two years 
after, he bought, January 1, 1678-9, of William Hill, his 
house and lot. Previous to all this he had received an 
allotment of 144 acres He died about 1698." 

Thus, as we have seen, Hatfield suggests that Benjamin 
may have been a son of Robert Wade of Dorchester, Mass., 
who was at that place in 1G35. 

Let us test this with the authorities. First, we find 
that Savage, in his ''New England Genealogical Dictionary ,'' 
says, "Robert Wade, Dorchester, 1635, removed to Hart- 
ford, where he was admitted freeman in 1645, then he 
lived at Saybrook, Conn., where he was divorced from his 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 231 

wife, Jane, then in England, after fifteen years of separation. 
He then moved to Norwich and was living there in 1009." 

We find from Blake's ''Annals of Dorchester ' (Mass.) that 
Robert Wade was one of the first proprietors of Dorchester, 
receiving acres allotment in 1600, on the freeman's roll 
in 1009 and effecting an exchange of land with one Caleb 
Abell in 1677. 

Brief and disconnected references to him occur at pp.01, 
GO, 86, 102, 130 and 205, but throw no light on his ancestry. 
A Richard Wade received 20 acres allotment in that town 
as early as January 4, 1635. 

In the '' Memorial History of Hartford County^ Connecticut,'''' 
(Vol. I, p. 261), the name of this Robert Wade appears in 
the chapter concerning original proprietors, with the fol- 
lowing particulars : — " Robert Wade, Dorchester, 1635, 
removed soon to Hartford, where he was one of those who 
received land ' by the courtesies of the town;' his home 
lot in 1639 was on the east side of the road to the Cow 
Pasture, the one 'sequestered' for John Pierce; he re- 
moved to Saybrook, where he was living in 1057, when he 
applied for and obtained a divorce from his wife Joan {ivho 
had deserted him for fifteen years and was then in England^. In 
1609 he was Freeman in Norwich. His son, Robert Wade, 
of Windham, died in 1090." 

Miss Caulkins, in her "■History of Norwich, Connecticut,'" 
supplies the following data as to the family of this Robert 
Wade (p. 205): "Wade. The name of Robert Wade is 
found at Dorchester, in 1035; a person bearing the same 
name was admitted as Freeman at Hartford, in 1010 ; at a 
later period it is found'among the inhabitants of Saybrook, 
and still later at Norwich. All these notices probably 
refer to one person. In August, 1057, Robert Wade was 
divorced from his wife by the General Court at Hartford 
{Colonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. I, p. 301), on the ground 
of her refusal for fifteen years to leave England and join 
him in the colony. His inventory is dated June. 1682, and 
mentions his widow , his son Robert, and his three daughters, Stis- 
sannah, Mary, and Elizabeth. Robert IVade, the younger, married 



232 The Wade Genealogy. 

in J6gi, Abigail Jxoyce, ami is found afterwards at Windham, 
Conn., w/icre he was admitted Freeman Mayjo, i6p^." 

Now, Benjamin Wade, the ancestor ot the New Jersey 
Wades, was bor-n in 1040. Let us see what his alleged 
father was doing at this date. We have seen from Savage 
and other authorities that Robert, of Dorchester, had by 
this date removed to Saybrook, after a residence at Hart- 
ford, and that in Saybrook he was, in 1057, divorced from 
his wife (? Joan) Jane, on the ground of her continuous 
residence in England for fifteen years (/. e., from before 
1G43) and her refusal to join him in America. Therefore, 
at the date of the birth of Benjamin Wade, the ancestor, 
Robert Wade, his alleged father, had no wife with him and 
could not by any possibility have been the father of the 
Benjamin born in 1646. Further, the Robert Wade of 
Dorchester, died, as we have seen, at Norwich, Conn., in 
1682, leaving a widow whom he had married after his 
divorce, a son, Robert, and three daughters, Susannah, 
Mary, and Elizabeth; but his will makes no mention of a 
son Benjamin, who, if he were the Benjamin settled at 
Elizabeth in New Jersey, would have then been alive, inas- 
much as Benjamin, the ancestor, did not die until about 
the year 1700. 

Hatfield's surmise as to Benjamin Wade's ancestry is, 
therefore, not only unwarranted by, but directly opposed to 
the facts. Now, where could this Benjamin Wade have come 
from? On this point, Onderdonk's '•'• Antiquities of Jamaica, 
Long Island" (1880), informs us that Jamaica was settled in 
1656 by colonists from Hempstead, L. I., while according 
to S. J. Ahern's pamphlet, Elizabeth, Fast and Fresent 
(1879), the settlers at Elizabeth were from Scotland, Eng- 
land, New England, and Long Island. The town was 
founded February 10, 1664. 

We may well assume that the balance of probability is 
in favor of an English ancestry, it being supported, not 
only by possibility, as shown by these last two extracts, 
but by family evidence and tradition. 




CoLONEii Richard Dean Arden Wade, U. S. A. 

(No. 578, p. 197.) 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 233 

As to this last, Mr. William Wade of Pittsburg states 
that there is a well settled family tradition that the ances- 
tors came from the County of Pembroke in Wales. 

The Beebe family records say the North of England, but 
this rather refers to the earliest' Wades who were said to 
have lived at Wade's Gap in the Roman Wall, and verges 
on the era of myth. 

The possession of -the Welsh motto, " Y fynno Dwy y 
fydd^'" is, in itself, very slight evidence of Welsh origin, 
though it is fair to say that most careful English inquiries 
and searches have failed to find a Benjamin Wade born in 
Wales in 1()4G, or indeed any Welsh family of that name. 
Wade as a name is purely Saxon and not Celtic as the 
Welsh were. Still, Wales was in process of subjection in 
1646, or practically subdued, and it would be easily possi- 
ble for a squire, the father of Benjamin, the ancestor, to be 
in Wales guarding a castle under the then existing feudal 
system. 

It is one of those puzzles as inscrutable as the face of 
the Sphinx, and as to its solution we can only say with 
Kipling in his ""Conundrum of the Workshops:'' 

Now if we could win to the Etlen Tree, where the Four Great 

Rivers flow 
And the wreath of Eve is red on the turf, as she left it long ago 
And if we could come when the sentry slept, and softly .scurry 

through, 
By the favor of God we might know as much, as our father Adam 

knew. 

Lastly, it has been suggested by an English genealogist 
that Benjamin Wade, the ancestor, was the eldest son of 
John Wade (No. 219) of Kingecrosse, near Halifax, in the 
County of York, England, by Mary his wife, daughter of 
Anthony Waterhouse of Woodhouse, in the same County. 
(As to this pedigree see Dngdale's Visitation of Yorkshire 
in 1665, printed in '■'Surtees Society Transactions,'' [Vol. 36, 
p. 32]; recently and with additions, in " The Genealogist" 
[Vol. 13,pp. 112-115], and also, varying, in ''Thoresbys Leeds" 
[Vol. 2, p. 153] [ed. of 1816] and as printed ante, pp. 136 
and 137.) 



334 The Wade Genealogy. 

Let us consider the probabilities of this proposition. In 
favor of this contention may be urged the fact that Benja- 
min, the ancestor, was a clothier by trade, and that Hali- 
fax, whence came these Wades of Kingecrosse, was a 
clothing center; that John Wade, the suggested father of 
the ancestor, Benjamin Wade, is said in the Herald's Visi- 
tation, to have died in 1G45, or thereabouts, so that Ben- 
jamin's birth in 10-40 is possible; that the statement in the 
Herald's Visitation, that this Benjamin Wade died unmar- 
ried, is to be taken as on a par with the usual heraldic in- 
accuracy as to any persons who were not actually present 
at the visitation; and, further, that there is no proof that 
the older Wades of New Jersey did nut follow the example 
of many of the wealthier and early colonists in adopting 
the coat and crest of the most famous English branch of 
the family, without attempting to prove any descent from 
the Wades of Kilnsay, whose arms and crest they certainly 
used. 

On the other hand, it may be urged that the death of 
John Wade, about 1045, or in that year, as the pedigree of 
Wade of Kingecrosse states, is in itself strong presumptive 
evidence against his being the father of Benjamin Wade of 
New Jersey, born 1046; that in this pedigree Benjamin, 
who is said to have died unmarried, is described as the 
eldest son, and as such was certainly born before 1640, as 
his parents married on April 0, 1630, and had two other 
sons and one daughter, all born before the father's death 
in 1645; that Dugdale's Visitation was made in 1600, this 
particular pedigree being dated at Leeds, April 4, 1000, so 
that those attending the visitation and testifying as to the 
family were speaking of living people and of events that 
had occurred within twenty years ©f the visitation; that at 
the time of the visitation Benjamin, if alive, would have 
been twenty years old, and so old enough to have emi- 
grated; that Sir William Dugdale, who was Garter King 
at Arms, and the principal Herald of England, had a con- 
siderable reputation for painstaking accuracy, and may be 
taken to have assured himself of the death of the Benjamin 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 235 

named in the pedigree, before inserting the fact as found 
and proved at his visitation; that if Benjamin had so emi- 
grated, he would most assuredly have noted the fact at a 
time when the great emigration of the English to Northern 
Virginia was so noteworthy an event. On the whole, while 
the suggestion is ingenious, it must be admitted that the 
balance of probabilities is against it. 

On a question of probabilities it is much more likely that 
No. 230, Benjamin Wade {auk, p. 13T) (the son of John 
Wade and Hannah Milner), is the ancestor of the New 
Jersey Wades. 

A search of the wills at Trenton has failed to solve the 
problem. It may be, and it is "a consummation devoutly 
to be wished" that some stray New England will may yet 
solve the problem in favor of New England or that, when 
in the fullness of time, the English church registers shall 
have been re.icued by "the art preservative of arts" from 
the custody of a fee-exacting clergy, Benjamin's baptism 
in England or Wales may be discovered and accord with 
family tradition. At present to search over 18,000 parish 
registers at 12 cents per year, per register, and 62 cents for 
each item found, would tax the purse of a genealogical 
Vanderbilt or Astor. 

It is only fair to state as in favor of a New England and 
possibly Connecticut birthplace for Benjamin Wade, that 
most of the early settlers around Elizabeth were New Eng- 
landers and many were from Connecticut; that the place 
name Connecticut Farms (or Wades Farms) given by the 
early settlers to the present township of Union, N. J. 
(organized as such 1805) is strongly indicative of origin; 
and also that the universal Presbyterian tinge of the early 
settlers is also indicative of New England origin. 



1,000. Benjamin Wade (/), the ancestor (son of ), 

born about 1646; died about 1700. 

(/). This Benjamin Wade is possibly identical with Benjamin 
Wade No. 336, son of John. (See ante, Part II, p. 137.) 



236 The Wade Genealogy. 

Married : — Ann (daughter of William Looker) about 
1670. She was born in 1049. 
Benjamin Wade died about 1700. His widow died July 
ol, 1737. (The tombstone of Ann [Looker] Wade is extant 
in the churchyard of the Presbyterian Church at Union 
[formerly Connecticut Farms], N. J., about 20 feet from 
the north-west corner of the church which has been erected 
on the site of its predecessor burnt by the British, June 
8,1780. It has the following inscription: "Here lyeth 
ye body of Ann Wade, wife of Benjamin Wade deced. 
who departed this Life, July ye 31, A. Dom. 1737, & 
in ye 88th year of her Age.") Benjamin Wade was a 
clothier by trade and came to Elizabethtown, N. J., as 
early as 1675, if not earlier, being one of the first 
settlers. He appears to have previously resided at Ja- 
maica, L. L, New York, whence also came one William 
Looker, a brewer, probably the father' of Ann Looker, the 
wife of Benjamin Wade, the ancestor. (William Looker 
was chosen and appointed a member of the Colonial Assem- 
bly of New Jersey, December 2, 1695. See Hatfield's His- 
tory of Elizabeth, N. /., p. 270. As to Looker family, see 
Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. HI, p. 3. Joan Looker, 
age 20, was a passenger on the ship Thomas, from Gravesend, 
England, to Virginia in 1635. Hotien's Lists of Emigrants, 
p. 127.) Family tradition says that Benjamin Wade came 
from the County of Pembroke, in Wales, a statement to a 
certain extent supported by the use of the Welsh motto, 
" Y fynno Dwy y fydd" (i. e., "What God willeth shall be ") 
on the armorial bopkplate in the possession of the family, 
assuming its origin to be authentic. It is also to be noticed 
that while Hatfield, in his History of Elizabeth, is as 
prompt to suggest a New England ancestry for William 
Looker as he is for Benjamin Wade, family tradition says 
that Ann Looker was on the same vessel as Benjamin 
Wade, and that on the voyage their acquaintance ripened 
into a regard, which resulted in marriage soon after landing. 
That Benjamin's stay in Jamaica, L. L, was of brief dura- 
tion may be inferred from the silence of the records of that 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 237 

town. The riddle of his ancestry is beyond any solution 
except that of an accidental discovery in English records. 
The most careful American researches and considerable 
work in England have failed to provide a satisfactory solu- 
tion other than as suggested on previous pages, though, as 
will have been seen, the idea of his descent from Robert 
Wade of Dorchester is preposterous and beyond belief. 

The Records of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey, 
now in the custody of the Surveyor General at Perth 
Amboy, New Jersey, show that for an early settler Benja- 
min Wade was an extensive landowner. Under date of 
March 14, 1G75 (Records, Liber II, p. 19}, he obtained a 
warrant to the Surveyor to lay out 120 acres of upland and 
meadow in the bounds of Elizabethtown. On February 20, 
1G76, a bill of sale is recorded from Mary, widow of Thomas 
Pope and his son John, to Benjamin Wade, in considera- 
tion of ;,^39. They then conveyed a dwelling house in Eliza- 
bethtown with 60 acres of upland and 6 acres of meadow to 
Benjamin Wade (Liber I, p. 71). On March IG, 1G7G-7, 
Luke Watson, for ^24, payable in good merchantable pipe 
staves, sold to Benjamin Wade, his dwelling house and 
pightle in Elizabethtown, then occupied by Benjamin 
Wade (Liber I, p. 72). On the same date Nicholas Carter 
sold to Benjamin Wade for ;^30 a home lot of 4 acres in 
Elizabethtown and a frame house thereon, and 40 acres of 
upland with all shares in the calf-pastures and in the block- 
house (Liber I, p. 73). On the same date the same Nich- 
olas Carter also sold another dwelling in Elizabethtown in 
the occupation of John Gray, to the said Benjamin Wade 
for ^10 (Liber I, p. 73). On November 30, 1G7G, a patent 
was granted Benjamin Wade of Elizabeth, clothier, by 
Philip Carteret, Governor; Sir George Carteret and others, 
for 144 acres of land in G parcels of upland and meadow, 
in and about said town, at a yearly rent of one halfpenny 
per acre (Liber I, p. 159), in respect of which patent the 
Surveyor (Liber II, p. 32) on October 9, 1G7G, laid out 48 
acres in Rahawack swamp, 40 acres in the plains of Cran- 
berry meadows, 40 acres on the north side of the branch 



238 The Wade Genealogy. 

of Elizabeth River, 12 acres at Rahawack, a pig-htle 
late of John Gray of one acre, and 3 acres of Thomas 
Moore's meadow. On January 1, 1678, Benjamin Wade 
purchased a home lot of 4 acres of William Hill (Liber B, 
p. 51). lie sold land in Rahawack swamp to Thomas 
Moore, on December 20, 1683 (Liber A, p. 329), and in 
September, 1684 (Liber B, p. 61), mortgaged 8 acres of 
land to Roger Lambert. 

On July 26, 1686 (Liber A, p. 407), the Lords Proprietors 
of East Jersey conveyed to Benjamin Wade, then described 
as a planter, 100 acres of land in Elizabethtown, the war- 
rant being dated February 6, 1685 (Liber L, p. 53), and 
the survey of John Reid being also of record. 

On March 24, 1692-3, he sold to William Miller of East 
Hampton (Long Island), 70 acres and 40 acres in Elizabeth, 
and 12 acres at Raway (Rah way, N. J.) (Liber F, p. 629). 

The oldest record book of Elizabethtown now in exist- 
ence is the one referred to in Dr. Hatfield's History of 
Elizabeth as " E. Town, book B." It had been missing for 
many years until a few years ago, when a capable and in- 
dustrious antiquary and local historian, Mr. Ernest L. 
Meyer, the City Surveyor of Elizabeth, discovered it in the 
possession of a gentleman in New York, who had purchased 
It at an auction. Being unable to recover the book, Mr. 
Meyer compromised by making a copy. At page 34 it 
contains an allotment to Benjamin Wade of 100 acres, 
surveyed February 27, 1699-1700. This plot is situate be- 
tween the first mountain and the present city of Elizabeth, 
in what is now the township of Westfield, or near it. 

Issue: — 

1001. Eobert Wade, b. ; d. Aug., 1766. 

1003. John Wade, b. 1688; d. Nov. 16, 1761. 

1003. Benjamin Wade, Jr. , b. ; d. 1738. 

1003a. (?) Wade. 



1001. Robert Wade (son of Benjamin, 1), born 
died at Elizabeth in August, 17(56. 
Married : — I, Elizabeth (daughter of ). 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 339 

Married : — II, Sarah (daughter of ). 

Issue: — 

1004. KobertWade. 

1005. BeDJamin Wade, b. abt. 1737; d. May 21, 17G0, at 

Elizabeth, N. J. 

1006. Patience Wade, b. 1736; d. Feb. 9, 1795. 

1007. Matthias Wade, b. Sept. 1, 1738; d. Oct. 29, 1739; 

infaut. 

1008. Daniel Wade, d. July, 1793, at Elizabeth, N. J. 

1009. Henry Wade. 

1010. Daughter, b. before 1760; m. Stephen Brown, Jr. 

1011. Daughter, ; m. Cherry. 



1002. John Wade (son of Benjamin) , born 1688; died No- 
vember IG, 1761. 

Married: — Patience (daughter of ), born July 

28, 1694; died July 30, 1759. 

Issue: — 

1012. John Wade, Jr., b. abt. 1720; d. 1767-73. 

1013. Aaron Wade, d. April, 1778. 



1003. Benjamin Wade, Jr. (son of Benjamin), born ; 

died 1738. 
Married : , (daughter of Ebenezer Lyon). 

Issue: — 

1014. Ebenezer Wade. 

1015. Mary Wade. 

Benjamin Wade, Jr., also obtained lands around Eliza- 
beth. In the City Surveyor of Elizabeth's possession is 
also a book entitled Town Book of Elizabethtown Purchase and 
the Names of the Proprietors of Lots under the said Purchase. It 
contains the distribution of the land which now forms the 
site of the town of New Providence, Union County, and 
parts of adjoining counties. At page 47, it refers to Ben- 
jamin Wade as owner of Lot 45 of 100 acres, laid out Jan- 
uary 20, 1737, and a page 51 , of lot 67 of 100 acres laid out 
January 21, 1737-8, these lands being in the Passaic Valley 
or neighborhood. 



240 The Wade Genealogy. 

1003^. Wade (son of Benjamin). 

Married : . 

Issue: — 

1016. Samuel Wade, living 173G. 

1017. Jonathan Wade, b. abt. 1723. 

1018. Joseph Wade, b. abt. 1715; d. 1777. 

1019. Abraham Wade, living 1720-1763. 

1020. David Wade, b. 1710 ; d. Jan. 8, 1732. 

This suppositious ancestor has been inserted thus, as 
these descendants (all unquestionably grandsons of Benja- 
min Wade, the ancestor), are found at Elizabeth, N. J., 
occupjdng lands, formerly the property of the ancestor, at 
an early date. The most careful researches have failed to 
disclose the nam.e of their parent; indeed, it is not even 
certain that they were brothers! There was also an 
Annias Wade, who enlisted April 21, 1701, in Captain Elias 
Dayton's company (French and Indian War). The Hessian 
destruction of Church records and family Bibles has re- 
moved every vestige of evidence of this ancestry. 



1004. Robert Wade (son of Robert). 

Married : ■ (daughter of ). 

Issue: — 

1021. James Wade, b. Oct. 10, 1780; d. Jan. 4, 1774. 

1022. David Wade. b. May 21, 1733; d. Sept. 10. 1779.-^^ 

1023. Johanna Wade, b. Nov. 6, 1735; d. June 30, 1825. 

1024. Nehemiah Wade, b. 1736; d. Oct. 19, 1776. 

1025. Matthias Wade, b. Aug. 10, 1742; d. May 25, 1820. 

1026. Robert Wade, b. Dec. 14, 1744; d. April 16, 1805, s. p. 

1027. Caleb Wade. b. Jan. 2, 1746; d. Feb. 10, 1798. 

1028. Abagail Wade, b. Aug. 14, 1749. 

1029. EHzabeth Wade, b. Dec. 1, 1753. 

Robert Wade was engaged, it is said, as a soldier in gar- 
rison at Old Oswego, when it was taken b)?- General Mont- 
calm, August 14, 1756, was taken prisoner, and it is alleged, 
was taken to France, where he was imprisoned in Pau or 
Bayonne Castle, and where he died. His widow survived 
him and died at the age of over 90. On the question of fam- 
ily tradition, (so dear to the disciples or T/?e Mail a-nd Express 
school of genealogy [?]), this case of Robert Wade is a fair 




Peyton Lisbey Wade, op Counsel. 
(Virp:inia t'umily. ) 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 2-il 

sample from which one may judgfe all. Family tradition 
makes him a captain instead of a high private. Commis- 
sion records in New Jersey archives show no such officer; 
family tradition also says he was with Wolte on the Plains 
of i\.braham (September 13, //jp), and was subsequently 
taken prisoner at Old Oswego (August 14, 1756), or, as 
some variations read, at Fort William Henry (August 9, 
I7S7)' 'he compiler, with access to, and a fair acquaint- 
ance with the contents of one of the finest libraries of 
colonial Americana in the United States (the late James 
Lenox's munificent bequest — intended for scholars — now 
lamentably debased and distorted into a fifth wheel for the 
Conglomerate Carnegierium, and mostly used by influential 
females searching for ancestors, who did possess manners), 
has been unable to find a shred of evidence that any colonial 
prisoners of war, taken by the French, were actually trans- 
ported to France. Reason and expedience, (for exchange 
purposes), would indicate Montreal as far more probable 
for their place of detention. 

One finds from The Colonial Documents of the State of New 
York, Vol. X, pp 484, 773, 830 and 881, that no less than 
1200 soldiers had died of disease at Oswego, between 
August, 1755, and August 15, 1756. The surrender itself 
included 1100 men of Shirley's and Pepperell's Regiments, 
600 militia (of Colonel Schuyler's New Jersey Regiment)^ 
workmen and sailors, 82 women and girls, 2 lieutenants in 
the Navy and 2 captains of flyboats. While a decision was 
made to send the prisoners to France, there is no evidence of 
its being carried into execution. On the contrary, docu- 
mentary evidence exists of many of the prisoners being 
held in Canada and thence exchanged. 

It may be that a curious letter as to the captivity at 
Montreal, of Ensign Simon Wade, of the Massachusetts 
family, and which letter, preserved at Tours in France, 
has been printed in Notes and Queries as long ago as 1809, 
was the genesis of the Pau or Bayonne tradition. The 
fact remains that neither printed history nor probability 
[16] 



242 The Wade Genealogy. 

support it. Peace to his ashes and a pest on all such old 
wives' tales! 

Toward the close of the Revolutionary War, there was an 
expectation that the damages committed by the British 
armies in their marches through New Jersey would con- 
stitute a valid claim against the British government. The 
legislature accordingly, by an act passed December 20, 
1781, appointed three commissioners in each of the several 
counties to take proofs of such claims. These were made 
out in detailed lists of property real and personal, des- 
trjDyed or stolen by invading soldiery, which lists] were 
sworn to by the persons claiming to have been damaged, 
or by his or her legal representatives, and supported by the 
affidavit of one other person claiming to have personal 
knowledge of the facts. In some cases the commissioners 
also took proofs of claims of losses alleged to have been 
sustained at the hands of the Continental armies with the 
view to presenting them to Continental Congress. 

It is needless to say that none of these claims were ever 
acknowledged or paid, either by the British or by, the 
United States governments; but the lists of losses have 
been partially preserved and bound and form several vol- 
umes. They are of great interest and value, not only 
because they indicate very clearly the devastations wrought 
by the invading armies, and show the routes taken by 
them-, but because they indicate in the most vivid manner 
the social conditions and circumstances of the persons 
whose property was destroyed. 

The losses of Elizabeth Wade, widow of Robert, (1004) 
are as follows : — 

No. 50. Connecticut Farms. 

Inventory of the property of the Widow Elizabeth Wade, taken 
& deftroy'd by the British troops or their Adherents, in June, 1780, 
viz : — 

£. S. D. 

3 Feather Beds, £12, 10 pr. Sheets, £12 10s, 24 . 10 . 

6 Blankets, £4 lOs, 3 Bed spreads GO.s, 7 . 10 . 

2 Chests with Draws 50.?, 2 . 10 . 

2 Worfted Gowns 50s, 1 Drugget Do. 22s M, 3 . 12 . 6 

1 Callico Gown 20s, 1 Double Callico Gown 30s, 2.10.0 

1 Durant Do. 17s 6cl, 17 . 6 



2 . 


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3. 


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9 . 


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4 . 


05. 


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, 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 243 

1 Gazel Do. 20s, Callimanco Quilt 35.s', 
12 Petticoats Linfey Woolfey, 
1 Blue Broad Cloth Cloak 3b.s. Taffety Do, 44.s, 

1 Camblet long Gown 30s, 6 Short Gowns '60s, 
12 Aprons at 6.s, 12 Shifts at 9.s, 
14 Pr. Stockings £3 lO.s, 2 Pr. Shoes lo.s, 

6 Handerchiefs 30.s, 2 Dining Tables 13.s, 

2 Bed-fteads 30.9, Cash 40.9, 

2 Bonnets 15.9, 6 Chairs 12.9, 12 Pewter plates 24-9, 

3 Bafons 10.9, Iron kettle 10.9, 
1 Small Iron kettle 8.9, Brass Do. 7.9 6d, Drinking 

Pot 3.9 6d, 

£79 . 15 . ig) 
Attefted by Robert Wade, Henry Wade & Joanna Grummond. 

1005. Benjamin Wade (son of Robert), born about 1727; 
died at Elizabeth, N. J., May 21, 1760. 

Married : — Deborah (daughter of ). 

Issue: — 

1030. Jotham Wade, b. abt. 1754; d. Jan., 1804. 

1031. Sarah Wade. 

1032. Hannah Wade. 

1033. Rachel Wade. 

Benjamin Wade died May 21, 1760, at Elizabeth, N. J. 
His will, proved at Trenton, N. J. (Book G, p. 275), is as 
follows : — 

" In the name of God, Amen The twenty-fourth day of 
April, in the three and thirtieth year of the reign of our sov- 
ereign, Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, King, 
etc., and in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand 
seven hundred and sixty, L Benjamin Wade, of the Bor- 
ough of Elizabeth, in the County of Essex and Province of 
New Jersey, yeoman, being under indisposition of body, 
but of sound and perfect mind and memory (thanks be to 
Almighty God therefore), and calling to mind the uncer- 
tainty of this transitory life, do made this my last will and 
testament in manner and form following, that is to say: 
First and principally, I give, bequeath and recommend my 
soul into the hands of God, who gave me my being, and 
my body I commit to the earth to receive a decent Chris- 
tian burial, and as touching the distribution of such tem- 



ig) This statement of loss supplies the important and hitherto 
unknown information of the name of Henry Wade's widow, and also 
that his daughter Johanna Wade (No. 1023), married Grum- 
mond. 



244 The Wade Genealogy. 

poral estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I 
dispose of the same as toUoweth, videlicet. Imprimis^ my 
will is, and I do hereby, ordain that all such debts as I 
shall justly owe at the time of my death, shall be well and 
truly paid in convenient time after my death. Iteui .• I do 
hereby authorize and impower my executors hereinafter 
named and appointed to sell all niy buildings, lands, tene- 
ments and hereditaments, as also all my moveable estate, 
and the moneys arising by such sale T dispose of as follow- 
eth. Item : I give and bequeath unto my loving wife, Deb 
orah, the one equal third part of all ray whole estate (my 
just debts being first paid out of the same), to be at her 
sole dispose forever. Item : I give and bequeath unto my 
son, Jotham Wade, the sum of one hundred and fifty 
pounds, to be paid to him when he arrives at the age of 
twenty-one years. Item : All the remainder of my estate 
(which is not above disposed of) I give, to be equally 
divided to and among my three daughters, namely, Sarah, 
Hannah and Rachel, to be paid to them as they shall sev- 
erally arrive at the age of eighteen years, or if they or any 
of them shall happen to be married before they arrive to 
that age, then to be paid on their marriage day. Item .• 
The use or interest of the money above given to all my 
children I leave to be laid out at the directions of my exec- 
utors herein named and appointed in order to educate and 
bring them up in a decent and Christianlike manner. 
Item : I make, ordain and appoint my trusty and well- 
beloved friend. Timothy Whitehead, Esquire, and my be- 
loved brother, Daniel Wade (No. 1008), the joint executors 
of this my last will and testament, and I do revoke, nullify 
and make void all former and other wills and testaments 
by me in any manner of ways heretofore made and de- 
clared, hereby ratifying and confirming this to be my last 
will and testament and none other. 

" (Signed) BENJAMIN WADE. 

" Witnesses: James Colie, Samuel Thompson, Jotham 
Clark. Jr., John Wade, Jr. (No. 1012). '" 

On May 20, 1773, James- Carpenter of Elizabeth was 
appointed guardian of Jotham Wade (No. 1030), during his 
minority. (Trenton Records, Book K, p. 451.) 

1006. Patience Wade (daughter of Robert), born 1736; 
died February 9, 1795. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 245 

Married: — Josiah Woodruff, born ITS-i; died July 21, 
1790. 

Issue :-- 

1033a. Daniel Woodruff, b. 1774; d. Feb. 1, 1793, aged 19. 

1008. Daniel Wade (son of Robert), born ; died July 

1793, at Elizabeth, N. J. He was a private in the 
Essex county militia in the Revolution. 

Married: — I, Elizabeth (daughter of ); died 

December 4, 1758, aged 39. 
Married: — II, Temperance (daughter of ). 

Jssue: — 

1034. Amos Wade, b. abt. 1740. 

1U35. Daniel Wade, Jr., b. June 10, 1753; d. Sept. 9. 1821. 

1036. Benjamin Wade, b. 1759; bur. Oct. It. 1812; drowned. 

1037. Moses Wade, b. abt. 1760; d. after 1810. 

1038. Jacob Wade, b. Feb. 25, 17(52; d. Oct. 15 (or 17), 1828. 

1039. Robert Wade, b. Oct. 23, 1766; d. July 18, 1799. 

1040. Timothy Wade. 

1041. Patience Wade, m. Caleb Wade. Jr., No. 1086. 

1042. Temperance Wade, m. David Bonnell, Nov. 21, 

1762 (?) 

1043. Esther Wade, m. David Baker. 

Daniel Wade was appointed guardian of Sarah, daughter 
of Stephen Brown, Jr. (husband of No. 1010), August 13, 
1759 (Trenton Records. Book C, p. 04). His will is dated 
July 9, 1793; proved July 25, 1793 (Trenton Records, Book 
33, p. 192). It mentions those of his children then alive. 

At the time of the Revolution this Daniel Wade was prac- 
tically the head of the family, and was an extensive land- 
owner at Connecticut Farms (now Union, N. J.). He is 
found in possession of much property that was originally 
granted to Benjamin Wade_the ancestor; in fact, his prop- 
erty practically surrounded the present church, graveyard 
and parsonage at Union. At Daniel Wade's death there 
was a grand division of his property among his six sons 
and two daughters. 

Daniel Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: — 

No. 52. Connecticut Farms. 

Inventory of the property of Daniel Wade taken it destroy'd by 
the British troops or their adherents on 7th of June in the year 

1780, viz:- 



246 The Wade Genealogy. 

House, new part of stone, 30 feet by 23, Story & 

half high, old part 24 by 24. Story cV half high, £260 .0.0 

Old Barn 34 by 22, Covered with Shingles, 20 . 0.0 

Weeving Shop, 16 by 16. 6.0.0 

Corn Houfe, 12 by 16, Covered with Straw, 3 . 10 . 
Still Houfe, 24 by 20, Covered with Shingles & 2 

Story high, 75 . 0.0 

20 Barracks A: Hovels 40.9, 2.0.0 

1 Barrel Still damaged £14, 2 Cif terns contain- 

ing 110 bar'l £12, 26 , . 

7 Iron bound Hogsheads & 30 Barrels, 7 . 6.0 

3 Dry Hogsheads & 12 Barrels, 1 . 16 . 

7 Bufh's buckwheat 21.s, 3y2 Bafh's Wheat 28.s, 2 . 9.0 

4 Do. Shell'd Indian Corn 18«, Bufh'l Eye 5s, 1 . 3.0 

2 Looms in Value, 8 . 10 . 
6 Eeeds & Gears from 40 to 25. 4 . 10 . 
New Spooling Wheel 12.s, Swifts 5s, Warp bars 16s, 1 , 13 . 

3 Set of Spools at 6s, 3 Shuttles 6s, 1.4.0 
Gum Cupboard A: Black Walnut Cafe with Draws, 10 . 0.0 
Gum Cheft with Draws 40s, Gum Cupboard Small 20s 3 . 0.0 
Gum Oval Table 40s, Gum Square Table 25s, 3 . 5.0 
Table 15s, Banifter back Chairs, ■< Doz. at 8s, 3.3.0 

9 Common Chairs at 4s, 4 Duch Wheels at 24s, 5 . 0.0 
Great Wheel 15s, pr. Wool Cards 4s, . 19 . 
Smoothing Iron 3s, Iron Pot 12s, . 15 . 
Teakettle containing 7 Quarts 28s, 1 . 8.0 
Warming Pan with Copper bottom 28s, 1 . 8.0 

5 Pewter Platters 30s, 1.10.0 
5 Do. Plates, 5 Bafins & Iron ware to amount, 2 , 1 . o 
Cafe of knives & forks 7s, 3 Cedar Wafh tubs 33s, 2 . 0.0 

5 Cedar Pails at 3Gs, 5 Piggins at 2s, 1.7.6 

4 Milk Vefsels at 3s, 10 Milk Bowls at 2s, 1.12.0 
Large bread tray 4s, 2 Cedar Dying tubs 10s, . 14 . 
Cedar Churn 8s, Cedar tub with 22 Gall. Soap 40s, ?• . 8.0 
Soap fat sufficient for barrel soap 10s, 0.10.0 

10 lbs. Candles 10s, 25 lbs. Tallow 25s, 1.15.0 
1 Large tat tub & 2 Butter tubs 14s. . 14 . 6 
Large Stone Pot 3s, 5 Jugs 10s, }4 Gall. Tin 

Measure 16s, . 14 . 
Quart Meafure seal'd 36s, Pewter Pot 36s, Wool 

Comb 20s, 1.7.0 
Hatchet 15s, 3 Hammers 6s, 4 Gimlets 2s, Hand 

Saw 10s, 1.13.0 
• 2 Adzes 8s, Ox Chain 10s, Breft bit with 6 other 

bits etc. 10s, 1.8.0 

1 Drawing knife 4s, 2 Guns & Bayonets 60s, 3 , 4.0 

3 Svthe.s 21s. 3 Wh'isk brooms 30s, Whifk for 

30 Brooms 15s, 3 . 6.0 

80 lbs. Wool at 26s, 50 lbs. Flax at Is, 13 . 10 . 

2 Large Feather beds £12, Chaff bed of 7 yd. 

linen 14s, 12 . 14 . 3 

4 Bedfteads & 4 Cords £4, 5 Coverlets £6 . 58, 10.5.0 
4 Blankets £4, 8 Sheets at 12s, 8.16.0 

8 Pillow Cafes 24s, 2 Bolfters 15s, 6 Pillows 24s, 3 . 18 . 

6 Fine linen Shirts at 16s, 6 Homefpun Shirts at 8s, 7 . 4.0 
8 Shifts at 8s, 25 pr. Stockings at 5s, 9.9.0 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 247 

7 Pr. leathern Breeches £4 . 18s. 2 Watch Coats £4, £8 . 18 . 

2 Coats £4, 1 Long double Callico Gown oOs, 6 . 10 . 
1 Long Striped linen Gown 25s, 2 pi. Dimity 

breeches 20.9, 2 . 5,0 

1 Pr. Breeches 10.9, 8 Petticoats at 10.9, 4 . 10 . 

8 Short Gowns 48.9. Short Scarlet Cloak 25.9. 3 . 13 . 
6 Check'd Aprons SO-s 6 Handerchiefs 36.9, 3 . 6.0 
500 Kails at ::!0.9 pr. Hund. 7 . 10 . 
Set of Callico Curtains £5, 3 twill'd Table Cloths 24.9, 6 . 4.0 
5 Towels, 7.9 M, 0.7.6 

3 Swine Weight 200 each £9, 5 shotes wt. 70 

each, £5 . 15s, 14 . 15 . 

3 Calves 3 months old £4 . 10s, 14 sheep at 15.9, 15 . 0.0 

38 Geefe at 2^\ 20 Fowls at 1.9, 4 . 16 . 

41 yds. new linen, 6 . 3.0 

9 lbs. 4yardM linen 36.s, 3 laree sides Sole leather 75.9, 5 . 11.0 
Flax Break 12.9, Large it small Bible with margin 30.9, 2 . 2.0 
Watts' Sermons, Pfalms \- Hymns 19.9, ' . 19 . 
Grey's Sermons, Dodrige's Works & Sunday 

books 86.9, 1 . 16 . 

200 Pofts for fence, 2 . 10 . 



£636 . 14 . 6 
Attefted to by Daniel Wade & Daniel Wade, Junr. 

1009. Henry Wade (son of Robert). ; 

Married: (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

1045. Patty Wade, m. Aaron Ball. 

This Henry Wade was styled Captain Henry Wade by 
family tradition, and may have commanded a company 
raised to repel French and Indian invaders, or, far more 
probably, held that rank on the militia, after the peace 
with England, though the muster rolls of Colonial New 
Jersey show no such officer. He appears as a private in 
the Essex county militia in the Revolution. 

Henry Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: — 

No. 53. Connecticut Farms. 

Inventorj' of the property of Henry Wade taken & deftroyed by 
the Britifh troops or their Adherents on 7th of June, 1780, viz.- — 

£ s. D. 

15 yds. Homefpun Linen 45.9, 6 Fine Caps 24.9, 3 . 9.0 
4 pr. Women's Stockings at 5.9, 2 pr. Men's Linen 

Do. 16.9, 1 . 16 . 

2 Pr. Men's Woollen Stockings 10.9, . 10 . 
1 Pr. Worfted Do. 8.9, 2 Linfey Woolfey Short 

Gowns 10.9, . 18 . 

6 Callico Short Gowns 10.9, 2 Fine Sheets 30.9, 2 . 0.0 



248 The Wade Genealogy. 



£ S. D. 

4 Pr. Sheets £5, Defk Damaged 30.9, 6 . 0.0 

40 Continental Dolls, fiSs, Hone & 2 Eazors 6s, 0.12.8 

Cheft broken & Lock 5«, . o . 

1/2 Set Curtain Callico 20.^, 1 . 0.0 

1 Callico Gown 20.s, Fine Holland Apron lOs, 1.10.0 

2 Fine Handkerchiefs 12.9, 1 Silk Handk'i7s, 0. 19 . 
6 Womens Caps 20.s\ f j-d. New Taffety IO.9, 1 . 10 . 
1 Silk Bonnet 6.s, Fine Lawn Handker'f A: Lace 20s, 1 . 6.0 

1 Small Shirt 4.s, 2 Cambric Handkerchiefs 14s, . 18 . 

2 Check linen Handkerchiefs 8s, 0.8.0 

3 Pr. Women's Stockings 12s, 10 Women's Capes 30s, 2 . 2.0 
1 Pr. Silk Gloves 7s, 2 Pr. Gloves lis, part Linen, . 18 . 
3 Punch Bowls & 4 Glasses 8s Gd, 0.8.6 
1 Copper Tea kettle 15s, Iron Pot of 6 Gall. 15s, 1.10.0 

1 Pewter Teapot & small Brass Kettle 14s, . 14 . 

2 Pewter Quart Pots 9s, 3 Point Baton 3s, . 12 . 

1 Quart & 1 Point Bafon 4s Gd, three Gall. Knot 

Bowl 8s, • . 12 . C 

3 one Gall. Knot Bowls 12.s, 14 White Wood 

Bowls 2ls, 1.13.0 
3 one Quart Knot Dishes 3s, Churn 6s, 5 Pails 

Cedar 17s 6rf. 1 . 6.6 

2 Oak Pails 5s, Large Stone pot 4s, 2 Earthen 

pots 4s, . 13 . 
2 Chairs 6s, 2 small wheels Damaged 20s, Crofs- 

cut Saw 30.9, 2 . 16 . 

1 Iron Shod Shovel 5s, Spade 7s, 1 Reed 34 8s, 1.0.0 

Weft India Cane 6s, Sword Silver Wafhed 20s, 1 . 6.0 
40 Panes Glafs 7 by 9 20s, 2 twelve light Safhes 12s, 1.12.0 

1 Calf 20s, 14 Fowls 14s. 20 lbs. Bacon 13s id. 2.7.4 
40 Rails 13s 4d, Large Book of 700 Pages 20s & 

Psalm book, 1.16.4 

1 Trunk 7s, Bond in value £20, a note of hand £5, 25 . 7.0 



Attested to by Henry Wade & Nathan Tichenor. 



£69. 15.10 



1012. John Wade, Jr. (son of John), born about 1720; 
died 1767-1773. 
Married : — Sarah (daughter of Jos. and Elizabeth 
[Woodruff] Potter) about 1750. 

Issue: — 

1046. Eli Wade, b, March 2, 1*754; d. Nov. 4. 1802. 

1047. Rachel Wade. 

1048. Jane Wade 

1049. Lois Wade,; m. Bockorn; d. Aug. 9, 1836, 

Springfield. 

1050. Matthias Wade. 




Benjamin F. Wade. 
(New Jerst^y family.) 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 249 

1013. Aaron Wade (son of John). 

Married: — Jemima (daughter of David Day); he 
died April, 1778. 

Issue: — 

1051. (?) none. 

The will of Aaron Wade, dated January 2G. 1778, is recorded 
at Trenton (Book 20, p. 258). It was proved April 23, 
1778, mentions ?iis wife Jemima, leaves legacies to Eli 
Wade (No. lOlG), Rachel Wade (No. 1047), Jane Wade 
(No. 1048), Lois Wade (No. 1049) and Matthias Wade (No. 
1050), also to Jemima Maxwell and Abigail (daughters of 
William Maxwell), and to Matthias Potter's children. See 
hereon Littell's Passaic Valley Settlers, pp. 115, 279, 333. 

1014. Ebenezer Wade (son of Benjamin, Jr.). 

Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

1052. (?) 

1010. Samuel Wade (son of Wade and grandson of 

the ancestor Benjamin Wade). 
Married : (daughter of ). 

Issue : — 

1053. Noahcliah Wade, b. March 17, 1744 ; d. Jan. 22, 1828. 

1054. Mary Wade. 

1055. Elizabeth Wade. 

In 1736, Samuel Wade owned and lived on a farm 
originally the property of Benjamin Wade. 

1017. Jonathan Wade (son of Wade and grandson 

of the ancestor Benjamin Wade), born about 1723. 

Married: — Dorothy (daughter of Wells), 

about 1746. 

Issue : — 

1056. Jonathan Wade, Jr., b. abt. 1749; d. after 1801. 

1057. Patience Wade. b. abt. 1751: d. abt. 1831. 

1058. Nathaniel Wade, b. abt. 1753; d. Sept., 1785 (?) 

1059. Henry Wells Wade, b. June 6, 1748; d. Feb. 24, 1823. 



250 The Wade Genealogy. 

■ 1060. Obadiah "Wade. d. after ISOl. 

1061. Abner Wade, d. after iSOl. 

106"2. Dorothv Wade. h. 1763 ; m. Aaron Burnet. 

1063. Benjamin Wade. b. Aug. 29, ITiU; d. March 22, 1829, 

in Xew York; lived in Orange Co., X. Y. 

All the children but Benjamin settled at Canoe Brooks 
(now Xorthfield). X. J- 

lOlS. Joseph Wade (son of Wade, and grandson of 

the ancestor Benjamin Wade\ born about 1715; 

died ir:r. 

Married: — I, Sarah Searing (daughter of ), 

before 1740. 

Iss^ue: — 

1064. Andrew Wade. b. 1740: d. J an., 17S1. of consumption. 

at Morristown. N. J. 

1065. Simon Wade. b. Sept. 15, 1749, at Springtield : d. 

Sept. 21, 1817. 

Married : — II, Phebe (daughter of ). about 1753. 

Issue : — 

1066. Sarah Wade, b. July 2, 1754; m. abt. 1775, Xathaniel 

Wade, her cousin. 

1067. Hannah Wade, b. Aug. 29. 1756. 

1068. Stephen Wade. b. Aug. 26, 1759. 

1069. Joseph Wade, b. Oct. 16, 1761 ; d. at Hanover. X. J., 

Feb.. 1818. 

1070. Phebe Wade. b. April 24. 1765; d. Dec. 8, 1848; b. 

probably at Xorthfield. 

1071. Abigail Wade, b. Jan. 5. 1768. Either Abigail or 

Hannah Wade m. a Titchnell. 

Joseph Wade's will, dated September 13, 1776, and 
proved at Baskingridge, X. J., is recorded at Trenton 
(Book 18, p. -^-^O), and is as follows: — 

'*In the name of God amen. Joseph Wade of the Boro 
of Elizabeth in Essex County in the Province of Xew 
Jersey, Yeoman, being weak in Body but of sound mind 
and memory Blessed be God do this thirteenth day of 
September in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven 
hundred and seventy six make and publish this my last 
will and testament in manner and form following that is 
to say Imprimis I commend my Soul unto the hands of 
Almighty God who gave it me and my Body to the Earth 
from whence it came in hopes of a Joyful resurrection 
through the merits of Savior Jesus Christ and as for that 



Wade of New Jersey axd Ohio. 251 

worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless* me 
with I dispose thereof as followeth and fir^t my will is that 
all my Lands and Tenements rights to Lands or Meadows 
Goods and Chattels shall be sold at the Discretion of m.y 
executors hereafter to be named Either the whole or in 
part as they shall think best. Itejii my will is that after 
my just debts are p'd the money arising from the sale of 
my Lands etc shall be divided to my widow and children 
at the Discretion of my Executors as near to Justice and 
Equity as may be Lastly I ordain and appoint my Beloved 
Wife Phebe Daniel Wade my son Andrew and Hezekiah 
Thompson all of the Borro: aforesaid Executors of this 
my last Will and testament In Witness whereof I the said 
Joseph Wade have set my hand and fixt ray seal the day 
and year first above written. 

JOSEPH WADE [seal] 

Witnesses David Meeker, John Scudder, Hannah Sear- 
ing. Proved at Baskingbridge February 12, 1TT7. 

William Livingstone Jr. Surrogate. Charles Pettit 
Registrar " 

Joseph Wade served as Wagon Master in the Wagon 
Master General's department of New Jersey militia in the 
Revolution. 

1010. Abraham Wade (son of Wade, and grandson 

of the ancestor Benjamin Wade). 

Married : — Nancy (daughter of ). 

Issjie: — 

1072. Phoebe Wade, b. 1757 ; d. June 4, 1759. 

Abraham Wade died before February, 1778, and his 
widow, described as of Mendham, N. J., married John 
Bostedo, February 13, 1778. 

Abraham Wade witnessed a will in 1720, at Elizabeth- 
town, and 1763 was living at Connecticut Farms. 

1020. David Wade (son of Wade, and grandson of 

the ancestor Benjamin Wade), born 1710. 
Married : (daughter of ?) 

Issue: — 

1073. (?) 



252 The Wade Genealogy. 

David Wade died January 18, 1732, and was buried in 
the Presbyterian churchyard at Union, N. J., beside his 
grandmother, Ann, the wife of Benjamin Wade. The 
broken gravestone exists 1902. 

1021. JaxMes Wade (son of Robert), born October 10, 1730; 

died January 4, 1774. 
Married : — Hannah Hinman in 1754 (she born Sep- 
tember 4, 1731, and died June 0, 1792). 

Issue: — 

1074. A son, died in infancy. 

1075. Phebe-Wade, b. May 4, 1750 ; d. unm. April 15. 1777. 

1076. Jonas Wade. b. Sept. 4, 1757 ; d. Aug. 19 (9?), 1819. 

1077. Hannah Wade, b. Nov. 29. 1759; d. Jan. 22, 1817. 

1078. James Wheeler Wade, b. June 21, 1700 ; d. Oct. 3, 

1828. 

1079. Isaac Wade, b. Feb. 19, 1763 ; d. Sept. 14, 1809. 

1080. Sarah Wade, b. Nov. 4, 1764; d. Oct. 30, 1800. 

1081. Elias Wade, b. Feb. 26, 1767 ; d. April 27, 1844 ; bur. 

28, infirmity. 

1082. Uzal Wsde, b. Nov. 30, 1768 ; d. Nov. 30, 1828 ; bur. 

Dec. 1. 

1083. Robert Wade, b. Jan. 6, 1771 : d. March 15 (25?) 1829. 

1084. Elizabeth Wade, b Sept. 6, 1772 ; d. Nov. 10, 1776, 

unm. 

1085. Nehemiah Wade, twin to 1084, d. March 13, 1853, bur. 

15 ; old age. 

1022. David Wade (son of Robert), born May 21, 1733; 

died September 10, 1779. 
Married : — I, Phebe (daughter of Rail), born Oc- 
tober, 1731; died November 10, 1759. 

Issue : — 

1086. Caleb Wade, Jr. 

1087. Noah Wade, b. Oct. 13, 1768 ; d. April 6, 1804. 

Married : —II, Sarah (daughter of Everett), born 

1721 ; died October 24, 17G4. 

Isstje : — 

1088. David Everett Wade, b. Feb. 23, 1763 ; d. July 22. 

1842 ; moved to Cincinnati. Ohio. 

1089. Phebe Wade (prob. by first wife). 

Married .-—in, Rhoda (daughter of Magie), born 

1744; died November 27, 1819. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 253 

Jssue : — 

1090. Ezekiel Wade, b. July 21), 1770 ; d. Aug. 7, 1847 ; 

moved to Fort Washiugton, ou the Ohio River. 

1091. Sarah Wade, b. Oct. 17, 17(50 ; d. Nov. 23, 1829. 

1092. Job Wade, b. March 8, 1777 ; m. Mary Weeks, Oct. 

19, 1828. 

1093. Susan Wade, b. Feb. 18, 177o ; d. Jan. 28, 1794. 

1094. Ehoda Wade, b. Oct. 17, 1772 ; d. Aug. 3, 1791. 

1095. Henry Wade, b. May 4, 1779 ; d. March 18, 1782, unm. 

The will of David Wade is dated September 10, ITro, 
and is recorded at Trenton (Book 22, p. 1). It was proved 
September Ki, 1779, at Newark; mentions his wife Rhoda, 
and divides his estate into ten equal parts for his herein- 
before mentioned children. 

David Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: — 

No. 21. Connecticut Farms. 28th May, 1789. 

Inventory and apprifal of the Property of ^ Rhoda (Magie) Wade, 
widow of David Wade of Connecticut Farms, deceased, taken, burnt 
and deftroyed by the Britifh Army or their Adherents, on the 7th 
Day of June, 1780. 

1 Dwelling houfe, 40 by 30, two Stories high, X400 .0.0 

1 Shoemaker's Shop, , 25 . . 

1 Barn, 15 . . 

4 Feather Beds, 18 . 0.0 

1 Defk, 1 . 10 . 

3 Linen and one Woollen Wheels, 4 . 10 . 
1 Spooling Wheel, 8.0 

1 Large Brafs Kettle, 2 . 0.0 

2 Tea Kettles 1.15.0 
1 Saddle and bridle, 3 . 0.0 
1 Large Iron Kettle, 1 . G . 
1 Clock, 4 . 10 . 
1 Large Looking Glafs, 5 . 0.0 
150 pair of Men's Shoes, 60 . 0.0 
1 Large Dining Table, 2 . 0.0 

1 Round Table. 16 . 

2 Small Tables, 1 . 7.0 
1 Gum Cupboard, 3 . . 
9 Bannifter Back Chairs, 3 . 0.0 
9 Common " do. 1 . 16 . 
1 Low Cheft, 1.0.0 

1 Warming pan, 10 . 

2 Mufkets, 2 . 15 . 
A Beautit full of Earthen & Tea ware, 1 . 0,0 
1 Small Looking Glafs, 16 . 
6 Large Pewter Platters, 3.0.0 
18 pewter plates, 2 . 5.0 

4 do. Batons, 14 . 

1 Sett of Shoemaker's Lafts. 1 . 0.0 

2 Setts of Shoemaker's Tools, 2 . 0.0 
1 Sett of Silver Tea Spoons, 1 . 5.0 
6 Coverlids, 9 . 0.0 



254 The Wade Genealogy. 

6 Blankets, £4 . 10 . 

3 Bed Quilts, . 6.0.0 
2 Setts of Curtains, "10 . 0.0 
12 pair of Sheets, 16 . 4.0 
14 yards Homefpun Broad Cloth. 6 . 6,0 
20 yards Striped Linen. 4 . 10 . 
66 yards of Brown Linen & Tow Cloth, 9 . 18 . 

4 Diaper Table Cloths, 8 . 4.0 
10 pair of pillow Cafes, 3 . 0.0 

1 Cedar Lye tub, 1 . 0.0 
10 Barrels. 1 . 0.0 

2 Cedar Wafh Tubs, 1.10.0 
1 Barrel of Soap, 1 . 0.0 
4 Iron pot, 10 . 
60 Sides of Tanned Leather, 60 . 0.0 
1 pair of Silver Buckles, 1 . 2.6 
4 Good Bedfteads, 3 . 10 . 
1 Gum Eoekino^ Cradle, Iron Shod. 15.0 
1 Hog, weiorht 180 lbs. , 3.0.0 
12 Cords of Bark Burnt, 21 . 0.0 
the half of a Barn Burnt, 36 by 28, 20 . 0.0 
the half of a Bark houfe, 36 by 24, Bark Wheel, &c., 40 . 0.0 
the half of a Beam house, 5 . 0.0 



£761 .18.6 
The above attefted to by the oaths of Ehoda Wade and Robert 
Wade, Esfiuire. 



1023. Johanna Wade (daughter of Robert), born Novem- 

ber 6, 1735; died June 30, 1825. 
Married: — Grummond. 

Issue :—? (Untrsiced). 
This marriage appears from Johanna Grummond attest- 
ing her mother, Elizabeth Wade's, claim for losses in the 
Revolution. 

1024. Nehemtah Wade (son of Robert), born 1736; died 

October 11), 1776. 

Married: — Abigail (daughter of Mulford); 

she was born 1740; died March 1, 1783; buried 
March 3. 

IssUe : — 

1096. Nehemiah Wade, d. after 1832. 

1097. Jonathan Wade, b. 1761; d. Sept. 10, 1796; bur. 11, 

yellow fever. 

1098. Benjamin Wade, b. 1763; d. Dec. 10, 1765. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 255 

1099. James Wade. 

1100. Mary Wade, m. Benjamin Watkins and lived in 

Elizabeth. N. J. 

1101. Elizabeth Wade, m. Mr. Tucker; lived Elizabeth, 

N. J. 

1102. Benjamin Wade, b. probably July 23, 1772; living 

1796. 

1103. Robert Wade, probably d. young, abt. 1766. 

Nehemiah Wade was a Commissary of Military stores 
and Second Major in the 1st Essex regiment, New Jerse}'- 
militia in the Revolution from Jul}' 15, 1770, until he died 
in service from exposure. His monument is to be seen 
(marked with the bronze marker of the Sons of the 
American Revolution) in the Presbyterian grave yard at 
Elizabeth. His will, dated July 1, 177G, is recorded at 
Trenton (Book 18, p. 28) and was proved at Elizabeth in 
1776. It leaves to his son Nehemiah ;^200 and an excellent 
college education ; to his daughters Mary and Elizabeth 
;^100 each, and the balance of his estate to his six children, 
Nehemiah, Jonathan, James, Benjamin, Mary and Eliza- 
beth. His wife Abigail was to have the use of his house 
and garden during her life. . 



1025. Matthias Wade (son of Robert), born August lU, 
1742; died May 25, 1820. 
Married :--\, Elizabeth Searing. 

Married : — II, widow of McGee, maiden 

name Joanna Stewart, married before 1778. 

Issue : — 

1104. Mary Wade. 

1105. Deborah Wade, m. Moses Orilley and had three 

children. 

1106. John Wade, b. Aug. 30, 1780; d. Jan. 18, 1847. 

1107. Elizabeth Wade. 

Matthias Wade was a private in the Essex county 
militia in the Revolution, and probably a Captain of mili- 
tia after the war. 

Family tradition has it that a ball from Matthias Wade's 
musket knocked a silver cup out of General Knyphausen's 
hand as he was drinking water at the battle of Springfield, 



256 The Wade Genealogy. 

June o, 1730, causinij the Hessian General to exclaim: 
" The tamned rebels shoot VN'ell." 

Matthias Wade's losses in the Revolution were as fol- 
lows: — 

No. 7. Connecticut Farms, 26th May, 1789. 

Inventory and appraifal of the property of Matthias Wade, 
plundered and destroyed by the Britifh Army or their Adherents at 
Connecticut Farms and Springfield on the 30th day of November, 
1776, and the 2:^d of April, 1780. 

44 Sides of Sole Leather, ^64 . 0.0 

1 Firken of Butter, . 2.5.9 

350 Weight of Flour, 3 . 15 . 

1 Scarlet Long Cloak £5, 1 Chmtz Gown, . 6 . 18 . 

5 Short Gowns, 1 Home Spun Long Gown, 3 . 5.0 

1 Callimanco Skirt. 3 Lincey Petticoats, 2.15.6 

2 Handerchiefs and 2 Aprons, 1 • 7.6 

1 Broad Cloth Coat and one Jackcoat, 5 . 5.0 

2 Shirts and a pair of Stockings, 1 . 12 , 
1 Gun and one Looking Glaf-, 2 . 10 . 
1 Feather Bed & Bedding £8 . 10 . 0, 1 Ax Ss 8 . 18 . (> 
1 Straw Bed and Bedding, 2 . 10 . 
350 Weight of Beef, 5.5.8 
35 Weight of Tobacco, 1 Iron pot, 1 . 7.6 
1 Set of Shoemaker's Tools, 2 Lafts, 2 . 5.0 

June 23d, 1780. „ . ^ 

1 Fine Broad Cloth Coat and 1 Silk Veft, 6 . 5.0 

1 Cotton and 1 Broad Cloth Vest, 2 . 4.0 

2 Pair of Breeches almof New, . 2.5.0 
2 Pair of over Halls, 5 Shirts, 3 . 2.0 
1 Fine Shirt, 3 yards of Linen Cloth, 16 . 6 
1 pair of Thread and one pair of Worftead Stockings, 17.0 
1 Camblet Cloke and one wool hat, 1 . 11 . 

1 Linen and one Woollen petticoat, 1 • 2.0 
5 Homefpun and Five Englifh Blankets, 6 . 10 . 

2 Coverlids, 2 Sheets, ^ • '^ ' n 
2 Tea Tables, 2 Tea kettles, 2 . 14 . 
1 Keel and 4 Chairs, ^l ■ ^ 

1 Pewter Quart pot, 2 pewter Basons, 10 . 
72 Panes of Window Glass. ^ " ^2 ' n 

2 Sets of Shoemaker's Tools, 2 • 5-0 
12 Hens. |3 • 
500 Weight of Pork, ^ o n 
400 Weight of Flour, 4 . 8^ 

£169 . 11 . 8 
The above attefted to by the oaths of Matthias Wade, Jonas 
Wade, Efquire and David Whitehead, Junr. 

Amone the traditions of the Revolution, the following 
are chronicled in the memory of some of the aged at this 
place (Connecticut Farms). 

A house at Lyon's Farms, about three miles distant, was 




Captain William Wade. H. M. 88th Kegimeut. 
(No. 5G2, p. 195. ) 



i 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 257 

taken possession of during the war by twenty-five Hessians, 
and made a place of rendezvous. Three daring men, viz. : 

Matthias Wade, Barnabas Carter and — Morehouse, 

determined to surprise and route them. The night was 
chosen and their plan laid. Wade was to shoot the sentinel 
in front of the house, the report of whose gun was to be 
the signal for the other two to raise a shout back of the 
dwelling and fire into the windows. The plan was com- 
pletely successful. The terrified Hessians, supposing they 
were surrounded by superior numbers, fled will all possible 
speed, leaving their guns and ammunition and other 
articles of value to their victorious enemies. 

At another time, five Hessians obtained possession of a 
house near the present residence of Mr. Jonathan Mulford, 
in the south part of the township. No sooner was it known 
than the dwelling was entered by Jonas and Matthias 
Wade and Elijah Terrill. The latter was immediately 
clinched, and would have been overcome by the superior 
strength of his antagonist, but for the timely assistance of 
one of his comrades, who ran the Hessian through with his 
bayonet. The remaining four were then taken prisoners. 

About a quarter of a mile east of the meeting house the 
road is crossed by a small brook, on the other side of which 
the ground is considerable elevated. On the western em- 
inence about sixty of the people planted themselves with 
only muskets, resolved to dispute the passage of the British 
army on their march from Elizabethtown to Springfield; 
and so well did they make their stand that for several 
hours they kept the enemy at a stand and prevented their 
progress until their ammunition compelled them to retreat. 

At this time, as the army was approaching the meeting 
house, a Mr. Ball had stationed himself behind a shop at 
the foot of the church hill, across the road, to watch the 
movement of the enemy. As he was looking from his 
hiding-place, to see how near they had approached, a ball 
passed through his head and brought him to the ground. 
On the opposite side of the street, directly in the rear of 
the store of Mr. Wade, Abel Hays and James W. Wade 
[17] 



258 The Wade Genealogy. 

were secreted behind a shoemaker's shop, and were eye 
witnesses to the fate of their friend . Unwilling to see him 
suffer without affording assistance, Mr. Wade crossed the 
street in the face of the enemy, carried away his wounded 
companion under cover of the shop and house behind which 
the unhappy Ball had fallen, and bore him to the house 
where Mr. Joel Searing now (1852) resides. (From Howe's 
New Jersey Historical Collections, 1852, p. 197-198.) 

1026. Robert Wade (son of Robert), born December 14, 
1744. 
Married : — Polly (daughter of Woodruff). 

Robert Wade died without issue April 16, 1805. His 
widow, Polly (Woodruff) Wade, married Andrew Wilson, 
May 27, 1811. 

Robert Wade served as a Lieutenant in the 1st regiment, 
Essex county militia in the Revolution. 

Robert Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows : — 

No. 18. Connecticut Farms, 27th May. 178fl. 

Inventory and apprifal of the property of Robert Wade of Con- 
necticut Farms, Burnt, deftroyed and taken away by the Britifh 
Army or their Adherents the 7th June, 1780. 

1 Dwellinor house, 30 by 28, Story k half high, ) 

1 Kitchen, 24 by 18, - £300 .0.0 

1 Milk houfe, 20 by 12, ) 

1 Currying Shop, 25 . 0.0 

1 Barn, 25 . 0.0 

1 Framed Barrack, 3.0.0 

85 Bushels of Indian Corn, 19 , 2.6 

50 Bushels of Buckwheat, 7 . 10 . 

30 Bushels of Eye, 7 . 10 . 

50 Bushels of Oats, 6 . 5.0 

1 Feather Bed, 5 . 0.0 

1 Mahogany Teable, 3 . 10 . 

1 Large Gum Rule Joint Table, 2 . 0.0 

1 Very large Elegant Mahogany Defk, 15 . 0.0 

10 Setting Chairs, 4. 10 . 

1 Barrel of Beft Liver Oil. 6 . 0.0 

3 hundred weight of Salt Pork @ 8^1, 10 . . 

200 weight of Smoaked Hams, 7.10.0 

100 weight of Smoaked Beef, 3.15.0 

28 lbs. Yenifon, 1.8.0 

1 Looking Glafs, 1.0.0 

24 Sheets, 16 . 10 . 

5 Coverhds, 5 . 12 . 6 

3 Bed Blankets, . 2.5.0 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 259 

8 pair of pillow Cafes, 2 . 0.0 

3 Bedfteads, 3.0.0 

] Brafs Kettle, very large, 2 . 5.0 

1 Small Brafs Kettle, 13 . 

1 Iron Kettle, • 10 . 

8 pewter plates, 1 . 0.0 

3 Large pewter platters. 1 . 4.0 
10 yards of Six yarded Linen, 3 . . G 
1 Linen and one Woollen Wheel, 2 . 0.0 

1 Gold Ring, 16 . 
6 Currying knives, 3 . 10 . 

2 Barrels of Flour, 4 , 10 , 
20 Bushels of Wheat, 8.0.0 

4 Meat Barrels, 1 . 0.0 
10 Empty hogfheads, 3 . 0.0 
20 Barrels, 4.0.0 
50 Sides of Tanned Leather. 50 . 0.0 
1 Cupboard of the belt Quality, G . . 
1 Barrel of Lampblack, pack'd down, 5 . 0,0 
6 Graining Boards, 1.16.0 

4 Steels, 16 . 
1 Mufket, 2.0.0 

5 yards of Homefpun Broad Cloth, 2 . 5.0 
10 Cords of Hickory Wood, 10 . 0.0 
1000 feet of Whitewood Boards, 3 . 10.0 

3 Curryins Tables, 3 . 0.0 

1 Beaver Hat, 2 . 10 . 

3 Broad Cloth Coats, 10 . . • 

5 fine Shirts, 4 . 0.0 

3 pair of Plufh and Velvet Breeches, 4.10.0 

2 pair of Shoes, 1.0.0 
1 pair of Boots, 1 . 10 . 
1 Caftor Hat, 1 . 10 . 
35 pounds of Wool, 4 . 7.6 



£631 . 13 . 6 
The above attefted by the oaths of Eobert Wade, Esquire, and 
Caleb Wade. 



1027. Caleb Wade (son of Robert), born January 2, 1746; 
died February 10, 1798. He lived in New York 
City and was a cordwainer, in 180(3. 

Married : — Phebe (daughter of Thompson); 

she born 1758; died September 23, 1839, aged 81. 

Issue : — 

1108. Rachel Wade, b. Dec. 6, 1773; d. young. 

1109. James Wade, b. June 25, 1775; d. young. 

1110. James Wade 2d, b. April 4, 1777. 

1111. Matthias Wade, b. Aug. 31, 1780; went to some 

foreign country and was never heard of again. 

1112. Thompson Wade, b. Feb. 21, 1783; d. Dec. 31, 1854. 



2G0 The Wade Genealogy. 

1113. Abigail Wade, b. Jan. 28, 1784 ; d. March 3, 1870. 

1114. Rachel Wade. b. July 4, (5?), 1787; d. Aug. 14, 1825; 

m. James Wilson Wade (No. 1283). 

Caleb Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: — 

No. 2. Connecticut Farms, 25th May, 1789. 

Inventory and Apprifal of the property of Caleb Wade, Burnt, 

Detroyed and taken away by the Britifh Army or their Adherents 

on the 7th Day of June, 1780. 

1 Dwelling Houfe, 36 by 26, well finifhed, £310 . 0.0 

1 DwelUng Houfe, 28 by 20, well finifhed, 40 . 0.0 

1 Shop, 24 by 16, 30 . . 

1 Shed, 30 by 14, well Covered with Boards, 5 . 0.0 

1 Cow House, 2 (A) by li, covered with Boards, 10 . . 

1 Framed Barack, 14 ft. Square, boarded all round, 5 . 10 . 
1 Bee Houfe, 12 by 6, well covered, 1 . 5.0 

Timber for fifty pair of wheels, dereft out, @, 46^8, 116 .13.4 

3 pair of Cart Wheels, new, 10 . 10 . 

4 Steel plate Handfaws, 3 Broad Axes, 5 . 8.0 
12 Augers, 14 Plains of Different sizes, 6 . 10 . 
4 Chizels, 4 Gouges, 12 files and 6 Gimlets, 1 . 18 . 6 
1 Grofs of Bottles, 3 Cafes of Square Bottles, 4 . 16 . 
1 Barrel of Jamaica Spirits, 32 Gallons, 12.16.0 

1 Barrel of Weft India Rum, 31 Gallons, 7 . 0.0 

2 Barrels of Strong Beer, 2 . 10 . 

2 Barrel of Bottleing Syder, 3.0.0 
1 Large Lye Tub & 3 Cedar pails. 1 , 13 . 
6 Iron hooped Hogsheads, 30 Sider Barrels, 6 . 15 . 
4 Beef Barrels, 12 Flour Casks. 2 . 0.0 
6 Five Gallon Cags, three Candlesticks, 1 . 7.6 
1 Gum Cheft of Drawers & one Low Gum Cheft, 3 . 10 . 
1 Cedar Churn and twelve Milk Bowls, 1 . 7.0 

3 Hives of Bees, 3 . 15 . 
1 Grind Stone, 2 Spinning Wheels, 4 , 6.0 
1 Bible, 1 Book of Mr. Whiterield's Sermons & Life, 12 . 
10 Setting Chairs, 1 Large Trunk, 81b. hogs' fat, 3 . 2.6 

1 Set of China Cups & Saucers, i| Barrel Soap, 1 . 12.0 

2 Wash tubs and one Beer Anchor, 1.0.0 
12 Geefe, 24 Dunghill Fowls, 2 . 14 . 
40 Bushels of Corn, 8.0.0 

4 Barrels of Cyder, 3 . 4.0 
1 Good Beaver Hat 60s,l pair Corduroy Breeches 35s, 4 . 15 . 
1 pair Breeches, 3 pair Trowfers, 1 . 5.0 
1 Broad Cloth Coat and 3 Jackcoats, 8 . 2.0 

3 fine Shirts part wore. 1 new homefpun Shirt, 2 . 6.0 
15 pair Stockings and three pair of Shoes, 5.17.0 
3 Fine Shifts, 1 . 10 . 
3 Good Cloaks, 3.8.0 
1 Bonnet 8s, 1 Set of Knives & forks, Jersey 

maker 14s, 1 . 2.0 



[h] My careful and most reliable genealogical agent at Trenton, 
Miss Anna M. North, points out that the size of the cow house would 
indicate that kine leaner than Pharoah's were stored therein. Prob- 
ably an error for 12 x 10. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 261 

4 Long Gowns, 5 . 0.0 

6 Short Gowns, !) pair pillow Cafes, 4.10.0 

9 pairs of Sheets of Different kinds, 10 . 10 . 

2 Diaper Table Cloths, 2 Diaper Towels, 1 . 0.0 
8 Common Table Cloths @ G/, 18 . 
1 Barcelona and one Check Silk handerchiefs, 1 . 0.0 
1 Great Coat almoft new and 2 Feather Beds, 12 . 0.0 
4 Under Beds and one Calico Bedquilt, 4 . 5.0 

4 Bedsteads and four Bed Cords, 8 . 10 . 

5 Coverlids, , 0.0 

3 Bed Blankets® 20a Children's Cloathingc 60;, 6 . 0.0 

6 Caps, 1 Lawn handerchief, one Cambric do., 1 . 9.0 
1 Clock and one Looking Glafs, G . 0.0 
1 Cherry Tree Rule Joint Table, 3.0.0 
1 Gum Table and one Gum Stand, 2 . 8.0 
1 Iron Kettle and one Griddle, 1 , 0.0 
1 Frying pan, two Iron Skillets, 16 . 
1 dozen pewter plates and four Basons, 2 . 0.0 
6 pork Gammons, 100 weight @ 8d, 3.6.6 
100 weight of salt pork, 3.6.6 
12 gallons of Wine, 3 . 12 . 
30 lbs. of Smoaked Beef, 15 . 
1 Lawn Apron, 1 Black Silk do. . 4 Check do. , 2.4.0 

1 Set of Gallico Curtains, almoft new, 4 . 10 . 

2 Boy's Coats and two pairs of Shoes, 1 . 4,0 
2 Jackcoats and two Shirts, 15 . 
8 pair of Stockings, two pair Trowfers, 18 . 
1 Copper Tea Kettle, 16.0 
1 Oval Gum Table, 1.1.0 



£718 .5.4 
The above attefted to by the oaths of Caleb Wade and Elias 



Wade. 



1030. JoTHAM Wade (son of Benjamin), born about 1754. 

Married : — Elizabeth (daughter of ), she born 

1769. 

Issue : — 

1115. Mary Wade, b. May 28, 1788; d. Nov. 1, 1842; m. John 
B. Crane. Issue : son, Horace Crane. 

Jotham Wade died in January, 1801. His widow 

Elizabeth, married Jacob Searing, July 31, 1803. By her 

second marriage she had a son, David Searing, who 

removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, married and had issue four 

children. Elizabeth (Wade) Searing died April 25, 1814. 

On January 31, 1,801:, Jacob Searing was appointed guardian 

of Mary Wade. (Trenton Records, Book 10, p. 42L) 



202 The Wade Genealogy. 

Jotham Wade's losses in the Revolution were as fol- 
lows: — 

No. 23. Connecticut Farms, May 28, 1789. 

Inventory and Apprifal of the property of Jotham Wade taken 
by the British army or their adherents on the 23d June, 1780. 
1 Good Horfe 3 years old, .ilS .0.0 

4 Shirts part worn, 2.0.0 

£14 . . 

The above attefted to by the oath of Jotham Wade & Captn Mat- 
thias Wade. 

Jotham Wade was a member of the Lyon's Farms 
Baptist Church, in the records of which there are amusing 
entries concerning his spiritual backsliding(?) It appears 
that " Sister Harrison " suspected Jotham Wade of the 
terrible and dangerous heresy of believing that ////baptized 
little babies were not irrevocably, immediately and 
irretrievably damned! and had him tried for this awful 
crime. "Brother Wade " had the courage of his convic- 
tions and defended his proposition. As a result he was 
excommunicated by this band of chosen and charitable 
saints. There is no evidence that he suffered in purse or 
peace of mind or that he had any feeling other than pity 
for the ignorance of his prosecutors. 

1032. Hannah Wade (daughter of Benjamin). 

Married: — John Potter (son of John), see Littell's 
Passaic Valley Settlers, p. 333). 

Issue : — 

1116. Elias Potter, d. ao:e 25, unm. 

1117. Susan Potter, d. a^e 18, unm. 

1118. Jotham Potter, Major of militia; m. Eebecca Crane, 

dau. of John Crane of Westfield; issue, three 
children. 

1119. Benjamin Potter, m. Phebe Crane, dau. of John 

Crane of Westfield; issue, five children. 

1120. John Potter, m. Huldah Crane, dau. of John Crane 

of Westfield; issue, dau. Hannah. 

1034. Amos Wade (son of Daniel), born about 1740. 

Married :— Elizabeth Jewel, April 3, 1763. Both re- 
sided at Connecticut Farms. 



Wade of New Jkrsey and Ohio. 263 

Issue : — 

1131, Abner Wade, b. Dec. 14, 1765; in. Mary Clark. 

1133. Stephen Wade, m. Patience, dau. of Caleb Wade. 

(,108(5?) 
1133. Amos Wade, never m.; became deranged. 

Amos Wade served as a private in the Essex county, 

N. J., militia in the Revolution. 

His losses in the Revolution were as follov%'s: — 

No. 10. Connecticut Farms, 26th May, 1789. 

Inventory and appraifal of the Goods and property of Amos Wade, 
plundered and deftroyed by the Britifh Army at Connecticut Farms, 
on the 7th day of June, 1780. 

21 Bushels of Indian Corn, i- 

19 Bushels Buckwheat, 
100 Weight of Pork, 
1 Large Hog, 200 Weight, 
1 Spring Calf, 

5 Sides of Soal Leather, 

1 Iron pot and 1 Tea kettle, 

6 Pewter plates, two batons and two platters, 
3 Bibles, 
3 Barrels of V'inegar, 

2 Spinning Wheels, 
5 Bed Spreads, 
1 Looking Glafs, 

3 Beds with Bolsters and Pillows, 
30 pounds of Linen Yarn, 

1 Cheft of Drawers, 
half Barrel of Soap, five pounds of Candles, 

2 AVater pails, 
1 Gun, 

20 Geefe, 30 Dunghill fowls, 
Damage done to my Houfe, 

4 Setting Chairs, 
Damage done in Wheat and Flax, 
30 pounds of hogs' lard, 
1 Sattin Bonnet, 
1 Shoat, 

3 Shirts @ 10.9, 1 pair Cotton Stockings 8s, 
3 Linen Short Gowns, 

60 . 15 . 4 
The above attefted to by the oaths of Elizabeth Wade and Benja- 
min Wade. 

1035. Daniel Wade (son of Daniel), born June 10, 
1753. 

Married: — Abigail (daughter of Tucker, and 

widow of Tucker), born October 30, 17G5; 

died December 21, 1825. 



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264 The Wade Genealogy. 

Issue : — 
None. 
Daniel Wade died September 9, 1821, leaving his prop- 
erty to Daniel Wade Teller, a grandson of his wife, son of 
his wife's daughter Fanny Tucker, who married Samuel 
Teller. 

He was probably a private in the Essex county militia 
in the Revolution. 

1036. Benjamin Wade (son of Daniel), born 1759, 

Issue : — 

Probably none. 

Benjamin Wade was drowned; buried at Elizabeth, Oc- 
tober 10, 1812. 

His losses in the Revolution were as follows- — 

No. (■>. Connecticut Farms, 26th May, 1789. 

Inventory and apprifal of the property of Benjamin Wade, Plun- 
dered and Deftroyed by the Britifh Army or their Adherents, at 
Connecticut Farms, on the 7tli June, 1780. 

16 yards of four yarded Linen, new, £ 3 . 4.0 

6 yards of fix yarded Linen, 1 . 13 . 

1 Home fpuu Great Coat, 2 . 10 . 

1 Broad Cloth Coat. 2 . 10 . 

1 New Bible and new Spelling Book, 8.6. 

1 Size Stick, 1 pair pincers, 5 . 6 

1 Heel Knife, 1 . 

1 Silk Bonnet, 12.0 

£ 11 . 4.0 
The above attefted to by the oaths of Benjamin Wade and Jonas 
Wade, Efquire 

At Washington's headquarters, near Morristown, was a 
young man (Benjamin Wade, then 20 years of age), so pe- 
culiarly fitted for hazardous enterprises, so says family 
tradition, that he was relieved from the duties of a private 
of militia, and was employed by General Washington to 
watch the movements of the enemy. He was provided 
with a fleet horse and made many excursions around the 
enemy, meeting with several narrow escapes. 

1037. MosES Wade (son of Daniel), born about 17G0; died 

after 1810. 




David Treharne Newton Wade, Esq. 
(No. 411, p. 170.) 



"Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 2G5 

Married : — Mary (dauo;hter of Samuel Headley). 

Issue : — 

1124. Eebecca Wade, b. Nov. 24, 1788 ; m. Aaron Davis, 

May 28, 1814. 

1125. Nancy Wade, b. March 27. 1790 ; m. Isaac Smith. 

1126. Esther Wade, b. June 18, 1792 ; m. Stephen Howell, 

June 4. 1814. 

1127. Rhoda Wade, b. Oct. 3, 1793 ; m. Caleb M. Duty, 

Jan. 19, 1823 ; d. Aug. 20. 1849 : cholera. 

1128. Julia Wade. b. Oct. 17, 1797; m. Eev. Henry Hervey, 

D.D., Nov. 1, 1831; d. Oct. 3, 1876. 

1129. Prudence Wade, b. July 9, 1795; d. young. 

1130. Prudence Wade, b. Oct. 11, 1799; d. Aug. 17, 1849 of 

cholera ; unm. 

1131. Marv Wade. b. June 11, 1801 ; m. Jacob Pierson. 

1132. Caroline Wade, b. Sept. 22, 1805 ; m. James H. Pier- 

son. 

1133. Phebe Wade, b. Aug. 1, 1803 ; d. young, unm. 

1134. Moses Wade, b. Oct. 28. 1807. 

1135. Hannah Wade. b. July 19, 1810; m. Anthony Meeker 

of Newark. March 6, 1837. 

Moses Wade died after 1810. His widow married Mat- 
thias Burnett, March 10, 1827. 

1038. Jacob Wade (son of Daniel), born February 25, 
1762. 

Married: — Sarah Jones, born April 14, 17G5; d. 
April 22, 1845. 

Issue : — 

1136. James J. Wade, b. Oct. 23, 1785. 

1137. Jonathan Wade, b. Feb. 5, 1788. 

1138. Moses Wade, b. July2, 1792; living in Stafford, N.Y., 

March 16, 1822. 

1139. Henry Wade, b. Feb. 1, 1805, in Sangerfield, N. Y.; 

1888 lived in Farmersville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 

1140. Magdalen Wade, b. Nov. 15, 1783; 1838 lived in 

Farmersville, Cattaraugus Co. , N. Y. 

1141. Oliver Wade, b. Dec. 10, 1794; d. in infancy, 

1142. Oliver Wade, b. April 23, 1802; d. age 22, unm. at 

Farmersville. 

1143. Joanna Wade, b. Jan. 1, 1800. 

Jacob Wade sold his property in New Jersey and moved 
to Western New York. In March, 1822, he resided at 
Stafford, N. Y. He died October 15 (17?), 1828. 

1030. Robert Wade (son of Daniel), born October 23, 
1766; died July 18, 1799. 



266 The Wade Genealogy. 

Married : — Rebecca Jones, born April 5, 1763; died 
December 13, 1841. 

Issue : — 

1144. Henrv Wade, b. Sept. 37, 1789; d. May 25. 1871. 

1145. Daniel Wade, b. Sept. 15, 1792; d. May 19, 1864. 

1146. Elizabeth Wade, b. Jan. 23, 1794; d. Sept. 24, 1874, 

iinm. 

1147. -Toanna Wade, b. abt. 1795; d. 1880, Winona, Minn. 



1040. Timothy Wade (son of Daniel). 
Married : — Prussia Osborn. 

Issue : — 

1148. Susan Wade, m. Tinker, a missionary. 

1149. Sarah Wade. b. Feb. 25, 1787; d. Oct. 21, 1858, 

Albion, Mich. ; m. Daniel Wooley, and 

Spencer. 

1150. Phineas Wade, had three wives. 

1151. Polly Cook Wade, unm. 

Timothy Wade served as a private in Capt. Thomas 
Mill ford's company, 1st Essex militia in the Revolution, 
also in the New Jersey state troops, and also in Capt. 
Patterson's company, 3rd battalion, -^nd establishment, 
New Jersey Continental Line. 



1045. Patty Wade (daughter of Henry Wade). 

Married: — Aaron Ball. He married 2nd Hannah 
Willis. 

Issue : — 

1152. Polly Bail, b. March 32, 1775 ; d. 1853 ; m. Abner 

Meeker. Oct. 17, 179.1: (he b. Sept. 13, 1770 ; d. 
Nov. 7, 1845). 

1153. Aaron Ball, m. (1) Betsey Willcox ; m. (2) Betsey 

Woodruff. 

1154. Henrv Ball, m. (1) Hannah Conklin ; m. (3) Sarah 

Mullock. 

1155. Phebe Ball, m. John Hallock, Judge Co. Court and 

Mem. of Cong. 

By second wife: — 

1156. Harriet Ball, m. Stephen Bonnel of Plainfield. 

1157. Nancy Ball, m. Jos. Shotwell and lived iu Rahway. 

1158. John Ball, d. June, 1845 ; m. after going to Mexico, 

and had two children. 



Wade of New Jersey a\d Ohio. 207 

104G. Eli Wade (son of John, Jr.), born :\Iarch 2, ITo-i ; 
died November 4, 1802. 

Married: — Hannah Osborn, 1778 (she was born Feb- 
ruary, 28, 1755 ; died May 29, 1829). 

Issue : — 

1159. John Wade, b, Feb. 35, 1779. 

1160. Enos Wade, b. Sept. 19. 1781. 

1161. Squire Wade, b. Aug. 27, 1783. 

1162. Eachel Wade, b. Jau. 28, 1786 ; d. July 31, 1874 ; m. 

Jonatlian Harrisou. 

1163. Elizabeth Wade, b. Sept. 2, 1788 ; m. Wm. Price on 

May 25, 1810; had 7 children. 

1164. Aaron Wade. b. Jan. 3, 1791. 

1165. Jane Wade, b. March 15, 1794; mar. . 

Eli Wade's Revolutionary losses were as follows: — 
No. 37. Connecticut Farms, 2fltli May, 1789. 

Inventory and apprifal of the property of Eli Wade, taken by the 
Britifh army or their Adherents the 7th of June, 1780. 

1 Hog of 1301b. Weight, £ 1 . 17 . 6 

7 yards of New Bed Ticken. 1 . 4.6 

1 pewter Baton, 3 pew^ter plates, 4 spoons, 6 knives 

A: forks, 1 . G . 

2 pillow Cafpy, 6 . 
1 Broad Cloth fhort Cloke k. 1 Coat & Veft, 1 . 10 . 



6.4.0 
The above attefted to by the oaths of Eli Wade and Abraham Skip- 



man. 



1050. Matthias Wade (son of John, Jr.). 

Issue : — 

1166. (?) 

Matthias Wade was a private in the Essex county militia 
in the Revolution. 

1053. Noahdiah Wade (son of Samuel), born March 17, 
1744 ; died January 22, 1828. 
Married : — I, Eunice Gary. 
Issue : — 

1167. Samuel Wade, m. (1) Nancy Vankirk ; m. (2) Eachel 

Whitehead, Oct. 15, 1809 : d. aged 60. 

1168. Elizabeth Wade, m. Daniel Shannon. 

1169. Mary Wade, m. Andrew Johnson. 



268 The Wade Genealogy. 

Married : — II, Anna Braisted. 

Issue : — 

1170. Noahdiah Wade, b. 1806; m. Martha Wolverton. 

1171. Eunice Wade. b. April 22, 1807 ; m. Jonas Beardslee, 

May 12, 1828. 

Noahdiah Wade was commissioned a captain of the 
4th battalion, second establishment, New Jersey Con- 
tinental Line, December 2, 1776. He resigned his com- 
mission on December 2, 1777. 

1054. Mary Wade (daughter of Samuel). 

Married: — Waitstill Munson, March 19, 1755; he 
died February 26, 1777, aged 47 years, of small pox. 
She then married, February 11, 1778, David Mott. 

Issue : — 

1172. Samuel Munson, b. 1760; d. Feb. 26, 1777, of small 

pox. 

1173. Moses Munson, b. 1773 ; d. Feb. 27, 1777, of small pox. 

1174. Phoebe Munson, b. 1758; d. Feb. 25, 1777, of small 

pox. 

1175. Amos Munson. b. 1756 ; d. Aug. 20, 1776, of dysentery. 

1176. Isaac Munson, living 1794. 

1177. Israel Munson, living 1794. 

1055. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Samuel). 
Married : — Esacor Rude. 

Issue : — 

1178. (?) 

1056. Jonathan Wade, Jr. (son of Jonathan), born 1749; 

died after 1801. 

Married: — Elizabeth (daughter of Zebedee Ward). 
Isstie : — 

1179. Sylvester Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1770. 

1180. Jemima Wade, b. July 12, 1771; m. Demas, son of 
' Jos. Harrison. 

1181. Obadiah Wade, b. July 6, 1773. 

1182. Nathaniel Wade, b. Oct. 18, 1775; d. Jan., 1857. 

1183. Abner Wade, b. Dec. 8, 1777: d. young. 

1184. Samuel Wade, b. Sept. 22, 1779; d. young. 

1185. Elizabeth Wade, b. April 6, 1781; d. young. 

1186. Charity Wade, b. Aug. 6, 1783; d. young. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 200 

1187. Dorothy Wade, b. Sept 9, 1785. 

1188. Eliza!)eth Wade, triplet to 1187, d. in infancy. 

1189. Charity Wade, triplet to 1187; d. in infancy. 

1190. Elizabeth Wade, b. May 26, 1787. 

1191. Samuel Wade, b. Nov. 19, 178»; d. young. 

1192. Sarah Wade, b. April 5, 1790, unm. 

1193. Calvin Wade, b. Nov. 33. 1791, a shoemaker; m. 

Melinda Moore. 

1194. Jonathan Wade, b. July 16, 1793; m. Lockey Headly; 

d. Nov. 7, 1859, at Keyport, N. J. 

1195. Polly Wade, b. April 9. 1794; d. young. 

1196. Demas H. Wade, b. Feb. 9, 1797; d. 1820. 

Jonathan Wade served as Sergeant in Capt. Abraham 
Lyon's company, 2nd regiment, Essex county militia in 
the Revolution. 



1057. Patience Wade (daughter of Jonathan), born about 
1751; died about 18:31. 
Married : — John Meeker, born 1750. 

Issue : — 

1197. Dorothy Meeker, b. May 4, 1782; m. Chas. Jennings; 

d. May 16, 1851; (he b. Dec. 32, 1774; d. March 22, 
1831). 

1198. Catherine Meeker, m. Daniel Baldwin. 

1199. Stephen Meeker, b. 1795; d. 1824; m. Phebe, dau. of 

Benj. and Phebe (Wade) Johnson. 

1200. David ^Meeker, d. young. 

1201. Nathaniel Wade Meeker, b. 1793; m. Patience Lewis. 

1202. Betsey Meeker, b. Dec. 10, 1786; d. July 8, 1876; m. 

Oct. 28, 1807, to Caleb Edwards, (b. 1786; d. 1859); 
had eight children. 

1203. Michael Meeker. 



1058. Nathaniel Wade (son of Jonathan), born about 
1753; died September, 1785 (') 
Married: — Sarah Wade (No. 10G<J), his cousin (daugh- 
ter of Joseph Wade). 

Issue : — 

1204. Nathaniel Wade, Jr., b. Ju'ne 14, 1779; d. April 5, 

1823, of pleurisy. 

1205. Joseph Wade, b. 1777; d. June, 1841. 

1206. Phebe Wade, m. Geo. W. Combs of Philadelphia, 

1207. Hannah Wade, m. John Egel of Philadelphia. 
1208 Stephen Wade, d. unm. 



270 The Wade Genealogy. 

On September 24, 1785, Henry Wells Wade (No. 1059) 
was appointed administrator of the personal estate of his 
deceased brother, Nathaniel Wade (Trenton Records, 
Book 27, p. 375). Nathaniel Wade served as a private in 
Capt. Squiers' company, 2d regiment, Essex county militia 
in^the Revolution. He also appears on the muster rolls of 
the New Jersey Continental line as a cadet. 

1059. Henry Wells Wade (son of Jonathan Wade), born 
June 6, 1748; died February 24, 1823. 
Married: — Margaret Ward, September 23, 1773 (she 
was born January 24, 1755 ; died May 29, 1832); 
lived at Livingston, N. J. 

Issue : — 

1209. Euth Wade. b. Jan. 10, 1774; d. Jan. 11, 1851 ; m. 

Stephen Edwards. 

1210. Hamutel Wade, b. May 23, 1775 ; d. Dec. 18, 1827 ; 

m. Uzal Harrison. 

1211. Lydia Wade, b. Dec. 7, 1776 ; d. March 12, 1868 ; m. 

Frazer ; moved to Lake Country, N. Y. 

1212. Mary Wade, b. May 19. 1778 ; d. Oct. 2, 1858 ; m. 

Daniel Dean. 

1213. Catharine Wade. b. NcC. 29, 1779 ; d. Aug. 3, 1841 ; 

m. Nathan Williams, and had daij., Electa. 

1214. Wells Wade, b. Dec. 19, 1780; d. May 17, 1858. 

1215. Margaret Wade, b. July Ifi, 1782 ; d. Oct. 4, 1872; m. 

Luther Little, and had dau. , Abby. 

1216. Betsey Wade, b. Jan. 31,1784; d. Oct. 2, 1819; m. 

Samuel Squier. 

1217. A sou, who died in infancy. 

1218. A son, who died in infancy. 

1219. Electa Wade, b. April 14, 1787 ; d. Sept. 27, 1829 ; m. 

(1) Samuel Deao, and (2) Denman. 

1220. Abbey Wade, b. Dec. 35, 1788 ; m. as 2nd wife Samuel 

Squier; m. (2) Dodd. 

1221. Nancy Wade. b. July 14, 1794 : d. Aug. 5, 1864; unm; 

sick 21 years with aneurism. 
1223. Phebe Wade, b. Feb. 23, 1796; d. Dec. 27, 1861 ; m. 

Hiram Ambler, and moved to Connecticut. 
1223. Dorcas Wade, b. Sept. 3, 1797 ; d. Oct. 24, 1837 of 

consumption: unm. 

Henry Wells Wade is probably the Henry Wade who 
served -as a private in Captain William Gifford's company, 
3d battalion, second establishment, New Jersey Con- 
tinental Line, He also served in the campaign against the 
Indians of the Six Nations in Western Pennsylvania, in 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 271 

1779, and subsequently as Corporal in Captain Jonathan 
Forman's company, 3d regiment, New Jersey Conti- 
nental Line in the Virginia campaign of 1781, being pres- 
ent at the siege of Yorktovvn, and at the surrender of Lord 
Cornwallis, October 10, 1781. Henry Wade was present at 
the battle of Springfield, June 23, 1780, and was bayoneted 
in the leg. Mrs. James Caldwell's corpse was taken to 
Henry Wade's house, June 8, 1780, after her murder by a 
Tory, as one of the few houses left standing in Connecticut 
Farms. ' 



1060. Obadiah Wade (son of Jonathan Wade), died after 
1801. 
Married: — I, Hannah Pierson. 

Issue : — 

1224. Jabez Pierson Wade, died in infancy. 

1225. Sarah Wade. 

1226. Daniel Pierson Wade, b. June 26, 1791 ; d. April 13, 

1861. 

Married : — II, Catherine Wynant of Shrewsbury, N. J. 
She afterwards married Nathan Williams, whose 
^ first wife was Catherine Wade (No. 1213), a daugh- 
ter of Henry Wells Wade. 

Issue : — 

1227. William Wells Wade, d. aged 20 ; bur. Orange Cem- 

etery. 

Obadiah Wade resided in Orange Street, New York City, 
and owned two houses there at his death. He made quite 
a fortune filling up The Collect (aw^ater course in the busi- 
ness section of New York City), a work which required 
several years. He served as a private in the Essex county 
militia in the Revolution. 



1061. Abner Wade (son of Jonathan), died after 1801. 

Married:— VYiQ^^Q Beach, May 18, 1780 ; lived in New 
York City. 



272 The Wade Genealogy. 

Issue : — (All lived in New York city). 

1228. Abby Morehouse Wade, b. March 3, 1782 ; m. 

RoDjers. 
1221). Dolly Wells Wade, b. Feb. 13,1785 ; m. Worrall. 

1230. Phebe Wade, m. Fairweather. 

1231. Sallie Wade, b. Oct. 21, 1787; m. Baldwin. 

1232. Abner Wade. 

1233. Noah Beach Wade, b. June 23, 1783. 

Abner Wade served as a private m the Essex county 
militia of New Jersey in the Revolution, 



1062. Dorothy Wade (daughter of Jonathan) born 1763. 
Married : — Aaron Burnet. 

Issue : — 

1234. Polly Burnet, m. David Burnet. 

1235. Phebe Burnet, living '76; m. Jacob Sharp. 



1063. Benjamin Wade (son of Jonathan), born 1749. 

Married : — Tabitha (daughter of Richard Harrison), 
born May 16, 1773; died October 6, 1849. 

Issue : — 

1236. Uzal Harrison Wade, b. Dec. 3, 1794 ; d. March 5, 

1878. 

1237. Eliza Wade, b. March 26, 1797; m. Benjamin Bull. 

1238. Joanna Wade, b. Dec. 15, 1806 ; m. Benjamin Hulse 

as 2d wife. 

1239. Clarissa Wade, b. Aug. 12, 1799 ; m. Benjamin Hulse 

as 1st wife 

1240. Hannah Maria Wade, b. Sept. 23, 1809 ; d. Sept. 20, 

1836 ; m. F. Colman. 

1241. Almha Wade, b. Jan. 18, 1818; m. Doolittle ; 

lived Hamptonburg, N. Y. 

1242. Amelia Beach Wade, b. Nov. 17, 1815 ; d. Feb., 1877."; 

m. Thos. Coleman of Freeman, N. Y, 

1243. Benjamin Wade, b. Feb. 17, 1812 ; m. Sarah Van 

Velser of Newark, N. J. 

1244. Henry Wells Wade, b. May 2, 1804 ; d. Nov. 30, 1831, 

unm. 

1245. Richard Wade, b. Aug. 10, 1792 ; d. in infancy. 

1246. Richard Maitland Wade, b. Jan. 17, 1802 ; d. Jan. 11, 

1827. 

Benjamin Wade lived in New York city, removing, in 
after years, to Goshen, Orange county, N. Y., where he 
died after 1801. 




EzEKiEii Mtlford Wade, M. D. 
(jMassaehusetts Family.) 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 273 

10(J4. Andrew Wade (son of Joseph), born 1740. 

Married : — I, Martha Riggs, at Morristown, N. J., 
December 4, 17G5. She was born in 1743 and died 
June ;i4, 1777, at Morristown. of small pox. 

Married : — II, Rachel (daughter of John and Puah 
Osborn) and widow of Jonathan Bailey of Morris 
county, N. J. 

Issue : — 

1247. Jeptha Wade, b. Jan. 29, 1768, in Essex county, N.J.; 

d. March 9, 1813. 

1248. Electa Wade, b. Nov. 1, 1771 ; d May 10, 1843. 

1249. Gideon Wade. b. Aug. 11, 1776; bapt. July 10, 1777. 

1250. Martha Wade, b. Feb. 10, 1780 ; d. Feb. 7, 1842. 

1251. Rachel Wade, b. Feb. 10, 1780 ; d. June 25, 1780. 

Andrew Wade died January, 1781. His widow Rachel 
married (3), Isaac Clark, December 7, 1787. He was 
known as the blind fiddler and lived in Passaic Valley. 
After his death she married (4) Samuel, the son of Abner 
Tucker. Surviving her fourth husband, she died February, 
1840. Administration of Andrew Wade's efiects was 
granted to Simon Wade (No. 1065) January 31, 1781. 
(Trenton Records, Book ]\I., p. 71.) Inventory, j^o5..1..''Z. 



10G5. Simon Wade (son of Joseph), born in Springfield, 

N. J., September 15, 1749; died September 21, 

LSI 7. 
Married: — Abagaile Beardslee, February, 1786; 

she was born November 8, 1758; died March 16,, 

1847. 
Jssue : — (All born in Ogdensburg, N. Y.) 

1252. Charles Wade, b. Dec. 4. 1796 ; d. Nov. 22, 1869. 

1253. Clarissa Wade, b. Jan. 24, 1787 ; d. Feb. 8, 1832. 

1254. Sarah Wade, b. June 23, 1789 ; d. Jan. (?) June 17, 

1876. 

1255. Serein or Searing Wade, 1). May 5, 1793 ; d. April 3, 

1863, 

Simon Wade served as a private in the Sussex county 
militia in the Revolution. 

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274 The Wade Genealogy. 

1066. Sarah Wade (daughter of Joseph), born July 2, 

1754. 
Married : — About 1775, Nathaniel Wade, her cousin. 

Issue : — 

1255a. 

1067. Hannah Wade (daughter of Joseph), born August 

29, 1756. 

1068. Stephen Wade (son of Joseph), born August 26, 

1759. 

1069. Joseph Wade (son of Joseph), born October 16, 

1761; died at Hanover, N. J., February, 1818. 
Married: — I, Sarah Beach. 
Married : — H, Hannah Allen, a widow. 

Issue : — 

1256. Stephen Wade, d. before March, 1818 ; m. Jones. 

1257. William Wade, d. unm. 

1258. Patience B. Wade, m. Riggs. 

1259. Abigail Wade, m. John Doty. 

1260. Phebe Wade, m. Harvey Douglas. 

1261. Calvin Wade, m. Brown or Mary Griffith of 

Hanover Neck. 

1262. Sarah Wade, m. Crane. 

1263. Jemima Wade, m. Calvin Edwards and removed to 

Lake Country, N. Y. 

1264. Aaron D. Wade, d. in Newark, N. J., 1872. 

Joseph Wade served as a private in Capt. Peter Layton's 
company, Eastern battalion, Morris county militia and 
also in the New Jersey state troops. 

1070. Phebe Wade (daughter of Joseph), born April 24, 

1765. 

Married: — I, Benjamin Johnson, who died Septem- 
ber 25, 1806. 

Issue : — 

1265. Moses Johnson, died in infancy, aged 2 years. 

1266. Sarah Johnson, b. Dec. 4, 1790 ; d. May 7, 1854 ; m. 

Joseph Courter, Nov. 30, 1809, and had twelve 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 275 

children. He was b. May 30, 1788, and d. Nov. 1, 
1864. 

1267, Abicrail Johnson, m. Sullivan ; d. 1840, of 

consumption. He d. 1834. 

1268. Phebe P. Johnson, b. 1797 ; d. May 17, 1841 ; m. 

Stephen Meeker. 

Married :— II, David Lyon. 
No issue. 
Phebe Wade died December 8, 1848. Buried at North- 
field, N. J. 

1071. Abigail Wade (daughter of Joseph), born January 
5, 1768. 
Married : Titchnell (?) 

Issue ? — 

1269. . 



1076. Jonas Wade (son of J^ames). 

Afarried : — Rhoda (daughter of Samuel Headley), 
born 1756 ; died October 27, 1837, aged 81 years, 
8 months. 

Issue : — (Born Union, N. J.) 

1270. James Wade, b. Dec. 21, 1778 : d. March 6, 1819. 

1271. Stephen Wade, b. Nov. 29, 1780 ; d. Feb. 6, 1787, s. p. 

1272. Phebe Wade, b. Oct. 3, 1782 ; d. Aug. 21, 1867 ; m. 

Daniel Wurts, July, 1806. 

1273. Oliver Wade (Elder), b. Sept. [3, 1784 ; d. Dec. 2, 

1822. 

1274. Noah Wade, b. Jan. 10, 1787 ; d. Feb., 1821, unm. 

1275. Maria Wade, b. June 25, 1788 ; d. May 6, 1799. 

1276. Harriet Wade, b. March 19, 1790; d. Sept. 10, 1864. 

1277. Hannah Wade, b. June 6, 1792 ; d. Aug. 29, 1848. 

1278. Eliza Wade, b. Oct. 20, 1794; d. March 9, 1872. 

1279. Jane Wade. b. April 25, 1797 ; d. Sept. 11, 1874 ; m. 

Elijah Stites of New York city, Dec. 28. 1819, who 
d. Oct. 10, 1857, aged C8. No children. 

Jonas Wade served as a private in the Essex county 
militia in the Revolution. His losses in the Revolution 

were as follows: — 
No. 19. Connecticut Farms. 28th May, 1789. 

Inventory and Apprifal of the property of Jonas Wade, taken and 
deftroyed by the Britifh Army or their Adherents in the month of 
November, 1776, and the 7th of June, 1780. 



276 The Wade Genealogy. 

30 Bushels of Wheat, £12 . 0.0 

15 pair of Mens Shoes, 6 . 0.0 
June 1780—275 pair Mens Shoes, 110 . 0.0 

35 Cords of Bark Burnt, 51 .5.0 

16 Large Sides of Soal Leather, 30 . 0.0 
1 Equal half of 3 Buildings, Burnt, 65 . 0.0 

1 Horfe three years old, 14 . 0.0 

2 pair of Boots. 3 . 0.0 

1 pair of plated Spurs, 10 . 

2 pair of new Leather Breeches, 3 . 10 . 
15 pair of Stockings, @ Is, 3.15.0 

4 Shirts, ag, 10s, 2 . 0.0 

7 fine Sheets, 5 . 12 . 

4 Woollen Blankets, ' 2 . 10 . 

1 Man Saddle, 2 . 0.0 

1 Silver Stock Buckle and Ten Stocks, 2.0.0 

3 Pork Gammons, 1 . 10 . 

1 Barrel of Vinegar, 1 . 0.0 

2 Sheep, 1 . 10 . 

1 Long Gown — three Aprons, 2 . 9.0 
9 pair of Pillow Cafes, 2 . 14 . 

10 Towels— two Table Cloths, 1.8.0 

6 fine Handerchiefs @ 5s, 1 . 10 . 

2 Very line Shifts. 1.0.0 
50 lbs. of Pork, 1 . 13 . 4 

1 pair Cloth Breeches & one Jackcoat, 1 . 12 . 

6 Tanned Calf Skins, 3 . 0. ! 

3 Large Sides of Harnefs Leather, 4 . 10 . ] 



£327 .4.4 
The above attefted by the oaths of Sonas Wade Efquire, and 
James Whedler Wade. 



1077. Hannah Wade (daughter of James). 
Married : — I, David Crane. 

Issue : — 

1280. Elizabeth Crane, m. Aaron Nutman. 

1281. Phebe Crane, m. Morris Crane. 

Married : — II, John Tichenor. 

Issue : — 

1282. John Tichenor, resided in Schenectady, N. Y. 
1282a. A son. 

1282^ A daughter. 

Hannah (Wade Crane) Tichenor moved with her second 
husband to Galloway, near Albany, N. Y., where she died. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 277 

1078. James Wheeler Wade (son of James). 

■ Married:— I, Marg-aret Bishop, June 30(?), 1786; she 
was born 1769 ; died 1791. 

Married . —11, Hannah Pierson, June 30, 1794; she 
was born August 8, 1769: died January 24, 1828. 

Issue : — (Born in Union, N. J.) 

1283. James Wilson Wade, b. Sept. 22, 1788; d. Aug. 20, 

1864. 

1284. Margaret Bishop Wade, b. May 7, 1795; m. John 

Briant, March 12. 1816 

1285. David Wade, b. Dec. 6. 1797; d. Jan. 13, 1879. 

1286. William Pierson Wade, b. Sept. 18, 1799; d. Dec. 22, 

1846. 

1287. Hetty Thompson Wade, b. Dec. 15, 1803 ; m. Archi- 

bald Davenport. 

James Wheeler Wade was a private in the Pennsylvania 
insurrection of 1794. His losses in the Revolution were as 
follows : — 

No. 5. Connecticut Farms, 25th May, 1789. 

Inventory and Apprifal of the property of James Wheeler Wade, 
taken by the Britifh Army or their Adherents on the 7th day of June, 
1780. 

1 pair of new Leather Breeches, 

2 Shirts, 
5 Neck Stocks, 

1 Silver Stock Buckle & one Broch, 
1 Silk handkerchief, 
1 Tight Bodied Coat, 
1 Jackcoat, 

3 pair of Stockings, 

£9 . 1.6 
The above attefted to by the oaths of James Wheeler Wade and 
Jonas Wade, Efquire. 



1079. Isaac Wade (son of James), born February 19, 1763; 
died September 14, 1809. 

Married: — Lois Osborn, November 15, 1786; she was 
born February 9, 1766; died August 9, 1830. 

Issue : — (All born at Springfield, N. J.) 

1288. Elizabeth Wade, b. Dec. 15, 1787 ; m. Rev. Gershom 

Williams ; d. Aug. 1, 1847; murdered. (See Good- 
rich's Hist, of Wayne Co., Fa., pp. 91 and 238 and 
post, No. 1288. 

1289. William Wade, b. Nov. 17, 1789; d. Jan. 24, 1875. 



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278 The Wade Genealogy. 

1290. Phebe Wade, b. Nov. 15, 1791; d. Dec. 36, 1891, at 

Irvington, N. J. 

1291. Jane Wade. b. March 12, 1794; d. Feb. 6, 1814, unm. 

1292. James Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1796 ; d. April 3, 1800. 

1293. Elias Wade, b. Sept. 25, 1798 ; d. 1880 (1879)? 

1294. Sarah Wade, b. Aug. 21. 1800; d. Jan. 19, 1880. 

1295. Hannah Wade. b. Aug. 28, 1802; d. Jan., 1853 of can- 

cer ; unm. 

1296. Mary Brant Wade, b. Nov. 23, 1804 ; d. June 12, 1862, 

in New Brighton, Pa. 

1297. Isaac Edmundson Wade, b. Oct. 13, 1807 ; d. April 21, 

1850. in Houston, Texas. 



1080. Sarah Wade (daughter of James). 
Married: — John Roberts. 

Issue : — (Born in Newark, N. J.) 

1298. Elias Roberts, resided near Newark, N. J, 

1299. Daughter, m. David Allen of Newark, N. J. 

1300. Son. 

1301. Son. 

1302. Daughter. 

1303. Daughter. 

1081. Elias Wade (son of James). 

Married : — Elizabeth (daughter of Michael Woodruff). 
January 10, 1794; she was born January 25, 1777, 
died April 6 (8?), 1852. 

Issue : — (All born at Elizabeth, N. J.) 

1304. Jonas Hinman Wade, b. Nov. 28, 1795 ; d. April W, 

1797 ; bur. Elizabeth. 

1305. Jonas Hinman Wade, 2d. b. Feb. 9, 1801 ; d. Nov. 15, 

1805 ; drowned in a cistern. 

1306. Stephen Wheeler Wade, b. June 17, 1804 ; d. Feb. 12, 

1863 ; unm. 

1307. Robert Wade, b. Feb. 23, 1806 ; d. Oct. 1, 1846 ; unm. 

1308. Elizabeth Cook Wade, b. Oct. 17, 1808. 

1309. Henry KoUock Wade, b. July 11, 1811 ; d. Nov. 29, 

1828 ; unm. 

Elias Wade died April 27, 1844. 



1082. UzAL Wade (son of James), born November 30, 1768 ; 
died November 30, 1828. 

Married : — Phebe Harrison, Novem^ber 3, 1792. 
She was born October 8, 1845. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 279 

Issue : — (Born at SpriDgfield, N. J.) 

1310. William Arnot Wade, b. Oct. 31, 1794 ; d. March 20, 

1812. 

1311. Jonas Wade, b. Oct. 13, 1797 ; d. May 31, 1868. 

1313. Temperance Wade, b. Aug. 15, 1800 ; d. Dec. 9, 1801. 

1313. Oliver Wade, b. April 23, 1804. 

1314. Israel Wade, b. Sept, 14, 1806 ; d. Oct. 8 (?18), 1813. 

1315. Uzal Newton Wade, b. Aug. 30, 1809: d. after 1881. 

1316. Phebe Wade, b. May 3, and d. Aug. 8, 1813. 

1083. Robert Wade (son of James), born January 0, 1771 ; 

died March 15, 1829. 
Married : — I, Deborah Hopper, August 4, 1792, at 

Dutch Reformed Church, New York. She was 

born December 10, 1773; died April IG, 1812. 
Married : — II, Elizabeth Davidson, October 3, 1817. 

She was born July 17, 1775. 

Issue: — (Born in New York city). 

1317. Hannah Wade, b. April 39, 1793 ; d. unm. April 16, 

1813. 

1318. James Wade, b. Jan. 12, 1795. 

1319. Elizabeth Wade, b. Oct. 39, 1797 ; d. unm. Oct. 6, 

1805. 
1330. Eobert Hinmau Wade, b. Oct. 7, 1798 ; d. June 8, 

1801. 
1321. An infant son, b. Sept. 13, and d. Oct. 9, 1800. 
1323. Eobert Hinman Wade 2d, b. Jan. 4, 1803 ; d. Aug. 

29 1823 s. p 
1323. Deborah'wade', b. July 21, 1804. 

1334. Mary Wade. b. Oct. 10, 1806. 

1335. Yellus Hopper Wade, b. Nov. 'I'i, 1808. 

1336. Twin daughters, b. March 16, and d. March 20 and 

April 8, 1813. 

1085. Nehemiah Wade (son of James), born September 

6, 1772. 

J/^rrm/ .— Phebe Hendricks, April 30, 1796. She 

was born August 27, 1779, and buried September 

18, 1823. 

Issue:— (Born at Elizabeth). 

1327. John Woodruff Wade, b. Jan. 10, 1797; d. Sept. 14, 

1817. 
1338. James Hinman Wade, b. Oct. 18, 1798 ; d. Aug. 28, 

1873. 
1329. George Washington Wade, b. May 11, 1800; d. Jan. 

10, 1882. 






280 The Wade Genealogy. 

1330. Nehemiah Wade, b. Feb. 7, 1803. 

1331. Alexander Hamilton Wade, b. July 16, 1805 ; d. May 

15, 1893. 

1332. David Wade, b Sept. 17, 1807 ; d. Oct. 22. 1813. 

1333. Mary Hendricks Wade, b. July 16, 1813 ; d. Feb. 1, 

1819. 

1334. John Wade, b. Sept. 24, 1822 ; d. March 15, 1843. 

1086. Caleb Wade (son of David). 

Married: — Patience Wade (No. 1041) (daughter of 
Daniel). 

Issue : — 

1335. Patience Wade, m. Stephen Wade (No. 1122). 

1336. Elizabeth Wade. m. Stephen Wade (No. 112?^, late 

in life ; had daughter Phebe, who m. A. Shaw. 

1337. Phebe Wade, d. March 2, 1836, by falling clown stairs 

in New York. 

Caleb Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: — 

No. 9. Connecticut Farms, 26th May, 1789. 

Inventory and Apprifal of the property of Caleb Wade, Junr. , 
plundered, taken and deftroyed by the Britifh Army or their Adhe- 
rents, on the 7th day of June, 1780. 

22 pair of Shoes, new, for Mans wear, £11 . 0.0 

2 Calf Skins Tan'd and Curried, 1 . 12 . 

1 Spring Calf, 1.10.0 

1 Gun. . 1 . 15 . 

1 Pig, weight 40 pounds, 10 . 

12 panes of Glafs, 6 . 

5 Bushels of Indian Corn, 1 . 0.0 
1 pork Gammon 30 11)S. weight, 13 . 4 

6 Fowls. 6 . 
1 Copper Tea Kettle — one frying pan, 1.18.0 
6 Pewter plates — 1 pewter pint pot — 2 Quart Bafins,l . 1.0 

1 Good Feather Bed, 6 . 0.0 

2 New Coverlids, 4 . 0.0 
4 pair of Sheets, 6.0.0 

3 pair of Pillow Cafes, 18 . 

4 Good Shirts, 2 . D . 
1 Grazet Long Gown, 2 , 10 . 
1 Callico Gown, 2 . 0.0 

1 Worfted Gown, 1.5.0 . 

1 White Lawn Apron, 1 . 0.0 
4 Lawn Handkerchiefs, 1 . 0.0 

2 Short Gowns— 2 Silk handkerchiefs, 1 , 12.0 
12 pair of Stockings— 2 Silver Stotch Buckles, 5.16.0 

1 Silk Jacoat— 1 Caftor hat, 4 . 0.0 

1 Bonnet— 1 Cloak and one Bible, 1 . 8.0 

1 Pf aim Book ct Hymn book and young mans Compauionl 2 . 



£61 . 12 . 4 



The above attefted to by oath of Caleb Wade, Junr., and Doctor 
Caleb Halftead. 




Captain Robkrt Buchanan Wade, U. S. A. 

(No. 591, p. 303.) 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 281 

1087. Noah Wade (son of David), born October 13, 1708. 

Issue : — 

1338. (?) 

Noah Wade died April G, 1801. 

1088. David Everett Wade. (son of David), born Febru- 

ary -l-l, iroa; died July 22, 1842. 
Married: — Mary Jones, June 20, 1T86. She was born 
October 16, 17(55, in New Jersey ; died April 2.S, 
1811, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Issue : — 

1339. David Wade. b. Sept. 19, 1788: d. April 20, 1825. 

1340. Nehemiah Wade. b. 1795 ; d. July 24, 1879.. 

1341. Mary Wade, b. Nov. 30, 1797; d. Nov. 16, 1871. 

1342. Sarah Everett Wade, b. Oct. 23, 1800; d. Sept. 1, 

1880. 

1343. Meiancthon Smith Wade, b. Dec. 2, 1802 ; d. Aug. 

11, 1868. 

1344. Susan Ann Wade, b. Jan. 22, 1805 ; d. Sept. 14, 1852. 

1345. Stephen J. Wade, b. Dec. 18, 1808 ; d. Sept. 25, 1872. 

David E. Wade had an excellent military record as a 
private in the Essex count}^ militia. He was twice 
wounded and was a prisoner of war on the prison ship 
Jersey. 

At the battle of Springfield, June 23, 1780, Colonel 
Angell, commanding a regiment of Continental troops, 
dispatched David Everett Wade, then a youth of 19 years 
of age, to General Greene in order to inform him that the 
small arm ammunition of the patriots was reduced to two 
rounds per man. and to ask his instructions. Greene is 
said to have directed its expenditure, to be followed 
by an orderly retirement. 

In June, 1830, some of the veterans of the battle of 
Springfield held a reunion in the village. Among those 
present was David Everett Wade. His portrait is here 
reproduced from a valuable miniature in the possession of 
his descendant, William E. Guy Esq., of Saint Louis, Mo. 

1090. Ezekiel Wade (son of David), born July 29, 1770 ; 
died August 7, 1847; resided at Belleville, N. J. 



283 The Wade Genealogy. 

Married: — Abigail Woodruff (daughter of William 
Woodruff) of Elizabethtovvn, February 6, 1792. 
She was born August 4, 1770, at Elizabeth, N. J. ; 
died September 2, 1843. 

Issue : 

1346. Mary B. Wade, b. Feb. 13, 1793 ; d. Aug. 24, 1843. 

1347. William W. Wade, b. July 12, 1795 ; d. Sept. 26, 1843. 

1348. David E. Wade, b. Jan. 6. 1797 ; d. Feb. 26, 1832. 

1349. Eliza L. Wade, b. Dec. 2, 1799 ; d. July 16, 1878. 

1350. Jane L. Wade, b. March 30, 1801 ; d. Aug. 10, 1877; 

m. James Housman, 1826, at Hackensack, N. J. ; he 
died March 30, 1850 ; no children. She died March 
30, 1850. [Bergen 0€nealoc/i/,\x 267.) 

1351. Noah Wade, b. July 16, 1804 ; d. Jan., 1807, s. p. 

1352. Sarah A. Wade, b. March 17, 1806 ; d. July 17, 1872. 

1353. Abigail H. Wade, b. 1807-10. 

1354. Ezekiel Wade, b. Feb. 11, 1811 ; d. Nov. 21, 1897. 

South Kiver, N. J. 

Ezekiel Wade moved to Fort Washington on the Ohio 
River. 

1001. Sarah Wade (daughter of David Wade), born Oc- 
tober 17, 17G6 ; died November 22, 1829. 
Married: — Dr. Benjamin Richard Scudder, born 
November 14, 1764; died December 8, 1819. 

Issue : — 

1355. Susan Wade Scudder, b. April 6, 1794. 

1856. Rhoda Scudder, b. May 3, 1796 ; m. Daniel McCrea, 
Oct. 17, 1835. 

1357. Sarah Stites Scudder, b. Aug. 11, 1802. 

1358. Nancy Scudder, b. March 29, 1807. 

1092. Job Wade (son of David), born March 8, 1777. 
Married : — Mary Weeks, October 9, 1823. 

Isstie : — 

1359. 

1360. 

1361. 

1362. 



Admitted First Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J., 
1817; his wife in 1820. 

1093. Susan Wade (daughter of David), born February 
18, 1775; died January 28, 1794. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 283 

1094. Rhoda Wade (daughter of David), born October 

17, 1772; died August 3, 1791. 

1095. Henry Wade (son of David), born May 4, 1779; 

died March 18, 1782, s. p. 

1096. Nehemiah Wade (son of Nehemiah), died after 

1822. 

Married: — Jane Smith, September 19, 1784. She 
was born 1764; died September 6, 1822, of yellow 
fever. 

Issue : — 

1363. Son, d. Sept. 6, 1822, of yellow fever. 

1097. Jonathan Wade (son of Nehemiah), born 1761; 

died September 10, 1796, of yellow fever. 

Married: — I, Phebe (daughter of William Dayton, 
M.D.), April 1, 1791. 

Issue : — 

1363a. Margaret J. Wade, m. June G, 1815, James H. Clark, 

purser U. S. N. 
13636. Cornelia Dayton Wade, m. Matthias O. Halstead of 

Belvidere, N. J., Nov. 10, 1817. 
1363c. Jonathan Dayton Wade, buried Feb. 21, 1806. 

Married: — II, Phoebe Woodruff, born 1776; died 
August 1, 1798; buried at Elizabeth. 

His will is dated September 10, 1796, and was proved 
September 15, 1796. (Trenton, Book 35, p. 350.) It 
appoints his wife and his brother Benjamin executors. 
His widow's will is dated May 18, 1798, and was proved 
August 7, 1798. (Trenton, Book 37, p. 535.) It mentions 
her step-daughter Cornelia Dayton Wade and her step-son 
Jonathan Dayton Wade. 

1099. James Wade (son of Nehemiah). 

Married : — Nancy (daughter of Dr. Isaac Mosse) of 
. Elizabethtown, September 22, 1798. She was 



284 The Wade Genealogy. 

born 1780, and died August 29, 1851, at Elizabeth- 
town. 

Issue : — 

13G4. Abigail Wade. m. Whitfield. 

1365. Nathaniel Wade, d. young. 

James Wade moved to Philadelphia in 1813. 

1100. Mary Wade (daughter of Nehemiah). 

Married: — Benjamin Watkins; lived in Elizabeth. 

Issue : — 

1366. . ^ 

1101. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Nehemiah). 

Married : Tucker; lived in Elizabeth. 

Issue : — 

1367. . 

1102. Benjamin Wade (son of Nehemiah), born, probably, 
• July 22,17aG. 

Married : — I, Catherine (daughter of Rev. Thomas 
Morrell) (/) of Elizabethtown, born February 29, 
1772, and died November 21, 1800; consumption; 
buried November 22, "rejoicing in the hope of a 
blissful immortality." 

Issue :-^ 

1368. A child; d. Dec. 5, 1803 at Elizabethtown. 

1369. Thomas Morrell Wade, b. 1796; d. Feb. 9, 1854, at 

Lexington, Va. 

1370. Jacob Brush Wade, b. 1799, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Married: — II, Mary (daughter of Thomas Crowell), 
May 24, 1801. 

Issue : — 

1371. Henrietta B. Wade. b. 1802. at Elizabethtown. 
1373. Anna Maria Wade, b. 1805, at Elizabethtown. 

1373. Elizabeth V. Wade, b. 1809, at Elizabethtown ; d. at 

Philadelphia. 

1374. George Washington Wade. d. in Andersonville. 

1375. Benjamin Wade, d. at New York, 1846. 



(i) As to the famous Rev. Thomas Morrell, see Hatfield's History 
of Elizabeth, N. ./., pp. 623-6. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 285 

110-1. Mary Wade (daughter of ]\Iatthias). 
Married : — Nathaniel Budd. 

Issue : — 

1376. Daniel Budd, unm. 

1377. Sarah Budd, m. Concklin, 

1378. Nathaniel Budd, Jr. 

1879. Hannah Budd, m. Lewis Randolph. 

1380. John Budd, m. Mary Day. [J) 

1381. Bernard Budd, m. Mary Barlow. 

1382. Mary Budd, m. Henry Bell. 

1383. Elizabeth Budd, m. Benjamin Mills. 

1384. Charlotte Budd, m. Hezekiah Alberts. 

1385. Fanny Budd, m. Daniel L. Eummell. 

1386. Clara Budd, m. Joseph Rummell. 

1387. Joseph Budd, unm. 



1105. Deborah Wade (daughter of Matthias). 
Married : — Moses Crilley. 

Issue : — 

1388. . 

1389. . 



1390. . 

1106. Colonel John Wade (son of Matthias), born August 
30, 1780; died January 18. 1847. 
Married: — Sarah Lyon, August 30, 1801; born Au- 
gust 14, 1787, and died May 27, 1859. 

Issue : — 

1891. Mary D. Wade. b. Oct. 14, 1805; d. after 1828. 

1892. Susan M. Wade, b. June 9, 1807; d. after 1828. 

1393. Phebe Dean Wade, b. May 20, 1809; d. after 1828. 

1394. Caroline Wade, b. April 28, 1811; d. Feb. 9, 1813. 
1895. Charlotte L. Wade, b. Sept. 30, 1813. at Springfield, 

N. J. ; m. Silas Beebe; had 12 children. 

1396. Jane W. Wade, b. Jan. 17, 1816 ; d. June 25, 1847, at 

Baltimore, Md. 

1397. John Wade, Jr., b. April 23, 1818; d. Sept. 1, 1840, at 

Baltimore, s. p. 

1398. Sarah Wade, b. July 9, 1820; d. May 33, 1835, at 

Baltimore, Md. 

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1401*. Harriet E. Wade, b. March 18, 1833; d. Feb. 38, 1834. 

1403. Israel C. Wade, b. May 17, 1825; d. Oct. 11, 1845. 



(,y) See Littell's Pas«f«e Valley Settlers, \>. \2Q. 



286 The Wade Genealogy. 

1107. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Matthias). 
Married : — Noah Searing; died 1807. 

Issue : — 

1403. Hannah Searing. 

1404. Jacob Searing. 

1405. Ichabod Wade Searing. 

1406. John Searing. 

1407. Sally Searing: d. in infancy. 

1408. Sally Searing, b. Oct. 8. 1807; living 1883 ; m. Elihn 

Southmayd, b. Nov. 5, 1834; d. 1867. 

Married : — II, Peter Pixley. 

Issue: — 

1409. Susan Pixley. 

1410. Isaac Pixley. 

1411. Edward Pixley. 



1110. James Wade (son of Caleb), born April 1, 1777. 
Married: . 

Issue : — 

1412. Andrew Wade, mem. of Legislature 1849; m. and had 

children. 

1413. Phebe Wade, m. John Leak and moved to Seneca 

Falls, N. Y. 

1111. Matthias Wade (son of Caleb), born August 31, 

1780 ; went to foreign parts and never heard of 
again. 

1112. Thompson Wade (son of Caleb), born February 21, 

1783; died December 31, 1851. 
Married: — Susannah Williams, January 14, 1808. 
She was born August 7, 1788; died January 29, 
1867. 

Issue : — 

1414. Catherine Wade, b. Dec. 13, 1808; d. Oct. 9, 1810. 

1415. Susannah Wade, b. June 13, 1810 : d. Oct. 24, 1810. 

1416. Matilda Wade, b. Aug. 11, 1811 ; m. William Robb, 

Feb. 25, 1836. 

1417. Mary Ann Wade. b. July 9, 1813; m. David E. Wood- 

ruff, Feb. 9, 1837. 

1418. Matthias Thompson Wade, b. June 13, 1815; m. Han- 

nah M. Percill, March 26, 1840. 



Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 287 

1419. Catherine Harvey Wade, b. Oct. 15, 1818 ; m. John B. 

Price of San Jose, Cal.. July 20, 1854, 
1820. Lewis Harvey Wade, b. June 9, 1820 ; m. March 5, 

1878. Ann F. Rivers of Union, N. J., b. March 29, 

1822.. 

1421. James Monroe Wade. b. April 1, 1822 ; m. Elizabeth 

Burnet. Jan. 9, 1850. 

1422. Rachel Wade, b. Sept. 29, 1825. 

1423. Susan Elizabeth Wade, b. Nov. 23, 1829 ; d. Feb. 18, 

1868. 



1113. Abigail Wade (daughter of Caleb Wade), born June 
28, 1784; d. March 3, 1870. 
Married :—V)^m^ Ball, November 23, 1806; born No- 
vember 26, 1783; d. January 11, 1862. They lived 
at Turnpike Gate at Union, N. J. 

Issue : — 

1424. Eliza Wade Ball. b. Sept. 30,1807; d. May 1, 1849 ; 

m. Jotham Brown, b. Jan. 12, 1805; d. Dec. 30, 1829. 

1425. Jane Wade Ball, b. Nov. 5, 1809; m. John Potter, 

Jan. 18, 1832: b. Jan. 17, 1809. 

1426. Phebe Thompson Ball, b. Jan. 20, 1813 ; d. March 3, 

1861: m. John Burnet. March 25, 1840; b. Oct. 24, 
1814: d. March 16, 1880. 

1427. James Ball, b. Oct. 25. 1815: d. Oct. 3, 1873 ; m. Jane 

Halsey Burnet, Dec. 10, 1840; b. April 20, 1820. 

1428. Samuel Day Ball, b. Jan. 21, 1824; m. (1) CaroHne 

Wilcox, Nov. 4. 1845; m. (2) Phebe Ann Foster, 
May 12, 1861. 

1429. Foster Ball, bapt. April 18, 1815. 

1430. Stephen Ball, bapt. April 18, 1815. 

1431. Julia Ball, bapt. April 18, 1815. 

1111. Rachel Wade (daughter of Caleb), born July 4, 
1787 ; died August 14, 1825. 
J/ar/7>^.-— James Wilson Wade (No. 1283). 
Isst/e:—See No. 1283. 

1115. Mary Wade (daughter of Jotham), born May 28, 

1788; died November 1, 1842. 

Afarried .—John B. Crane, October 23, 1811; he born 

May 1, 1784. 

Issue : — 

1431a. J. Horace Crane, b. July 26, 1812; m. Mary M. 
Strang, Aug. 30, 1846. 



288 The Waue Genealogy. 

1431&. David Wade Crane, d. prob. of yellow fever in the 

South, imm. 
1431c. Jotham 0. Crane, b. March 12, 1814; m. Keziah 

Crane. May 18. 1801); she b. Jan. 9, 1819; both Jiving 

1883, Farmino^ham, 111." 
143ld. Glorianna Elizabeth Crane, b. March 12, 1816; m. 

Jacob Clark, May 14, 1837. 
Ume. Andrew Crane, b. June 27, 1818; d. Jan. 3, 1873 ; m. 

Elizabeth H. Bradbury, Jan. 3, 1850. 
1431/. Hannah Potter Crane, b. March 9, 1820 ; m. Jacob 

Ludlow, Sept. 1, 1847. 
1431f/. Benjamin Potter Crane, b. Feb. 23, 1822 ; m. Ehza- 

beth Blair. Sept. 15, 1867. 
1431^. Charles Watkins Crane, b. Fell. 28, 1824 ; d. Aug. 3, 

1825 
1431i. Mary' W. Crane, b. March 28, 1828; d. March 28, 

1835. 
1431/. Abby Scott Crane, b. April 28, 1832; d. 1865; m. 

William Henry Roll. He d. 1866. 



1121. Abner Wade (son of Amos), born December 14. 
1T65. 
Afarned .— Mary Clark, born April 29, 1764. 

Issue : — 

1432. Abner Clark Wade, b. Oct. 29, 1787; m. Mary Sayre, 

Jan. 14, 1809 ; children, 6 daus. and 1 son. 

1433. Elizabeth Wade, b. Nov. 4, 1789 ; m. (1) John Shan- 

non; m. (2) Wooley; four children. 

1434. Robert Morris Wade, b. May 28, 1792; d. May 7, 

1883. 

1435. Fanny Wade, b. June 10, 1794 ; m. William S. Vaa 

Court ; thirteen children. 

1436. Stephen Wade, b. Feb. 1, 1797 ; d. unm. 

1437. Henry Wade, b. Feb. 7, 1799 ; d. unm. 

1438. Homer Wade, b. March 1, 1801 ; m. Julia K. Reeve, 

Jan. 3, 1832. 

Abner Wade was living in Morristown, N. J., January 4, 
1782. at which time he was a member of the First Presby- 
terian Church. 



1122. vStephen Wade (son of Amos). 

Married .—I, Patience (daughter of Caleb Wade), 

(No. 1335). 
Married.— U, Elizabeth Wade (No. 1336). 



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